Installing Linux on sdb ??

[Jim]

On 04/19/2010 07:41 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> 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.
>    
  I have always been under the impression that Window had to be on Sda1 .