Re: Easy question (I hope)
- From: imotgm <imotgm_REMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 03:11:11 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2006 01:37:55 +0200, houghi wrote:
imotgm wrote:
What I do, is install the drive that will hold Suse as hda, the master on
the first IDE controller, so that it is the boot drive. I move the
original Windows drive to hdc, the master on the second IDE controller.
My DVD-R/W burner is hdb, the slave on the first IDE controller.
Why would you move the hda to hdc? Why not just put in the new drive as
hdc and install SUSE there?
Re-read the post to which you replied.
If Linux was on hdc, with grub on hda, along with windows, removing the
Linux drive would leave grub without a menu, and Windows would not boot,
without intervention with a rescue disk. Removing the Windows drive, hda,
would leave Linux without a bootloader, so it would not boot, without
extra intervention with a rescue disk. Neither of these things is true
with Linux on hda, and Windows on hdc.
The point is to have grub not be on the Windows drive, thereby rendering
Windows incapable of overwriting grub, and to give each drive total
independence. Neither drive is absolutely dependant on the presence of the
other, in order to boot the OS on that drive, and you and I don't have to
tell people, for the (n)th how to get back grub, after Windows overwrites
it, as that becomes impossible.
Knowing how to repair a recurring problem is not as good a solution as
eliminating the problem altogether. ;-)
The OP also expressed, in his reply to Michael Soibelman, a desire to be
able to move his Linux drive to another machine, to which you replied,
"That will only work in some very rare cases where both machines are
IDENTICAL." This is not true, and the method of installation, as I spelled
it out, allows the OP to do just that, with totally different machines. I
switch between machines that have the following:
machine 1
Athlon 64 3000+ CPU
Gigabyte motherboard
Nforce3 chip set
Nvidia graphics card
Gigabit integrated nic
8 channel integrated sound
no modem
machine 2
AMD K6-3 450 CPU
Soyo motherboard
Via chip set (maybe SiS, the machine is 120 miles away, so I can't check)
3dLabs graphics card
Linksys 10-100 nic
Ensoniq 128 voice PCI sound card
no modem
machine 3
Athlon 500 CPU
Gigabyte motherboard
AMD chip set
ATI graphics card
Linksys 10-100 nic
Ensoniq 128 voice PCI sound card
Diamond Supra Express (ISA) internal controller modem
I've been doing the "Suse shuffle" between three, or four, machines since
SuSE 6.4 was a pup. It also works with Mandrake/Mandriva, Slackware, and
PCLOS, which I also currently run. Linux is very flexible, in this regard.
--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."
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