Installing Linux on sdb ??

Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Mon Apr 19 23:41:50 UTC 2010


>Yes. If you are willing to edit the BIOS you don't even need GRUB to
>boot off different drives. The BIOS on my 3 year old motherboard
>allows me to specify the drive (IDE, SATA, USB) and their boot order.

Mine allows a post time menu as most new ones do I am sure, the problem
is installing it if you don't know what you are doing.

To get windows on the second drive, you need to make it sda, install
as usual, then move it to sdb, or it will overwrite sda's mbr etc...

I have mine setup this way.


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