Pete Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Lilo and grub tend to be the usual suspects, do they ID the Windows partition and configure themselves automatically then? (I feel so stupid asking such newbie questions!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Newer versions should do, if not once linux is installed you edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the info. As there is only two physical disks and one OS per disk it would be pretty basic config too, I have not done it for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 Newer versions should do, if not once linux is installed you edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the info. As there is only two physical disks and one OS per disk it would be pretty basic config too, I have not done it for a long time. Am I being thick here, but aren't there 3 physical disks, 2 in a raid, and one seperate one? Or are the 2 raid disks considered a single physical disk by the OS's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Seems fairly straight forward - http://www.matthewjmiller.net/howtos/dual-boot-linux-and-windows/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Am I being thick here, but aren't there 3 physical disks, 2 in a raid, and one seperate one? Or are the 2 raid disks considered a single physical disk by the OS's? The BIOS fools the OS into seeing a single disk. (assuming a proper RAID BIOS and not software RAID within Windows) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 Seems a shame to use a VM when you've got that spanking new hard drive to play with. The only bit I'm not sure of is adding/removing bootloaders. It's not something I've played with (or had to play with) as I prefer to just swap the drives about and have the luxury of kit to play with like this. Lewis (or others) - what are the best boot loaders are out there? One thought I've had is you could partition the new drive into two and use the one partition to ghost across your existing drive as a backup. That way if the bootloader goes wrong you can restore easily. I will use the new drive as we discussed, just having a play with the VM stuff, and it seems to work! I like the idea of partioning the drive to back up data to, but it sounds a bit complex. I'd need to get my head round this before I started! 320 gig is too big to just play with Ubuntu on, I could sure use a backup medium... Hmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 The BIOS fools the OS into seeing a single disk. (assuming a proper RAID BIOS and not software RAID within Windows) beat me to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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