[ubuntu-uk] dual boot

norman norman at littletank.org
Wed Nov 28 20:55:42 GMT 2007


> If I'm following correctly, the Ubuntu drive is SATA. Therefore it
> doesn't come into master/slave debate.

That is correct and interesting. Does that mean I could just plug in
another SATA drive without having to worry about setting jumpers etc?
> 
> Assuming the Ubuntu drive is fully working and Grub is installed to the
> MBR, can you post the menu.lst and device.map files the from /boot/grub/
> directory to the pastebin (or to this list)? Then we can see the current
> configuration and maybe make suggestions about what needs to be changed.

Please explain to this ignorant one what is the MBR and how do things
get installed there?

There have been no changes made to menu.lst other than the few lines
right at the end which I was advised to put there, these are:-
title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

device.map is simply:-

(hd0) /dev/sda

I would have thought there should be some reference to hd1.

Norman




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