[ubuntu-uk] dual boot with 2 HDDs

[Yorvyk]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:56:00 +0100
Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:

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> > Having done this, the hardest/longest part of this is getting all the correct drivers into Windows.
> > What I did was plug just the windows drive into the machine and get that sorted with the correct drivers and updates. Once that was done, the windows drive was then set to be the second drive and the Ubuntu one the first. Once Ubuntu was booted 'update-grub' was run, which picked up windows.
> > This arrangement has a couple of advantages in that it doesn’t modify the windows drive, so no fiddling with fdisk /mbr or what ever if you wish to move it later. and if there are boot problems you can just choose which drive to boot from in BIOS.
> > 
> This is more or less what I did those years ago. The only part I did not
> know about was update-grub. Does this work with the current version of
> grub?
> 
Yes, it was done with Karmic and XP. I couldn’t believe how easy it was, I was expecting to be editing assorted grub config files. Having said that, it will probably turn into a complete nightmare for you :D

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