[LBo] Setup grub to boot off external harddisk

[David Roseman]

Hi Sabrina,

Remove yourself from the mailing list if you don't want to be emailed....

Dave

On 04/09/07, sabrina meseroll <sabrinahope00 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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