[lug] Re: SATA dual booting

[Norm Metcalf]

Thank you.  I wasn't sure about SATA.  I plugged in the second drive, 
accessed the BOOT menu and both drives showed up and it is a simple 
matter of selecting which drive I wish.  I trust that the drives won't 
interact with each other.  I appreciate your suggestion for an elegant 
solution.  By the way, I meant Ubuntu 8.04.
	Norm

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> There's no reason to take a reply like this off the list.
> 
> Norm Metcalf wrote:
>> Perhaps I've gone about it wrong but I'm looking for instructions on 
>> how to dual-boot a SATA machine with two SATA drives.  I have Mepis 
>> 7.0 installed on one drive and I'd like to install Ubuntu 8.08 on the 
>> other drive.  There's got to be a software solution instead of opening 
>> the case and switching cables.
> 
> Look at the BIOS to see whether it will boot either drive.  Then each 
> can have its own boot loader and be completely independent.
> 
> Otherwise you can update the boot loader (grub probably) on Mepis to 
> boot the Ubuntu install.
> 
> I don't know offhand how grub handles kernel updates.  But I suspect it 
> isn't that hard to get Mepis to handle new kernels on Ubuntu.  Getting 
> Ubuntu to do the right thing without messing up Mepis might be harder.
> 
> Perhaps you could give each disk its own boot loader that it handles 
> itself and add an entry to each to boot the other.
> 
> Dave
> 
>> David L. Anselmi wrote:
>>> We've gotten a room from DeVry for installfest.
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