[LBo] Setup grub to boot off external harddisk

[sabrina meseroll]

hi,
i would really appreciate it if you mould stop emailling me, Thanks


>From: "David Roseman" <toxote77 at googlemail.com>
>Reply-To: qna at linuxbasics.org
>To: qna at linuxbasics.org
>Subject: Re: [LBo] Setup grub to boot off external harddisk
>Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:39:33 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for all your comments - I think i need to do some more reading on 
>how
>grub works though.
>
>In answer to Anitas question on why I want to do this, the reason is that 
>my
>windows install is sitting on my smaller 80Gb HDD internal and I have a
>160Gb external.  I would like to shift windows to that and utilise the 80Gb
>for another linux distro for experiment.
>
>I would have removed it entirely, but the OU course I have just started has
>materials which only work on windows.., oh and MS FlightSim X, if only
>flightgear could begin to approach it, that would be fantastic.
>
>Dave
>
>On 03/09/07, Anita Lewis <a.lewis at linuxbasics.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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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