[LBo] Setup grub to boot off external harddisk

[Anita Lewis]

Bert Van Kets wrote:

> There are two different thing at play here. First of all you need to set 
> the bootable drives in your BIOS. If you don't set it right there, you 
> will never be able to boot from a secondary or an external drive. You 
> will have to have the system boot from the primary drive and have the 
> bootloader point to the external drive/partition.

I don't see why the original poster would need or want to boot from the
external or secondary drive.  Why not just place grub in the primary
drive where it currently is?  Why is that a problem?

It is possible that mapping will need be added to grub in the Windows
booting section in order to boot from the external drive. I have seen
that required for booting Windows when it is on the first partition of a
drive.

I'm not clear why the person wants to move Windows in the first place,
though.  Is the idea to make it transportable on the external drive?


Anita


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