Multiple hard drives

[Merv Curley]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 12:38, adel wollemas wrote:
>  I am totally new to Linux and Ubuntu. But guess what, my first
> installation went smoothly and I am even writing this email from
> Ubuntu.
>
> My problem is that I have three hard drives: 1. Maxtor SATA drive
> 80 GB. running Winxp professional. 2. Western Digital standard ide
> 40 GB running Windows 2000 professional. 3. Last but not the least
> is Maxtor standard ide 10 GB running UBUNTU.
>
> The only way I can boot UBUNTU is if I set it as the first choice
> on the boot sequence in Bios. If it is not the first choice, then I
> get the option of winxp or win2k. My guess is that grub is not
> seeing the other two os. Can somebody help me?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Adel
>

I recently read about SATA drives and the kernel and I gather that 
they aren't well supported with our present kernel.  Should be ok in 
the latest 2.6.15 I think.  At any rate don't be surprised if you 
have problems,  be sure to have a means of starting XP on the SATA 
drive if its MBR gets hosed when you try to write to it.

Cheers  

-- 
Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont.Can

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