[wellylug] Multi O/S boot issue

[David McNab]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:01:10 +1300
Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group <rob at ubietygroup.com> wrote:

> (except when reinstalling windows which wants to keep trashing my
> MBR).

Another trick is to put w---dows onto a physically separate disk, into
IDE 1,0 (/dev/hdc).

Prior to installing, set BIOS to boot off the second disk.

Then, when w--dows writes the mbr, it'll go to /dev/hdc, which won't
matter.

(Don't forget then to change BIOS back to booting /dev/hda).

Thereafter, stick the disk-swap line into the GRUB or LILO config entry
for w--dows.

An added benefit is that when one is ready to wipe out w--dows, one can
simply reformat or sell the disk without having to change any setup.

D

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