[ubuntu-uk] dual boot with 2 HDDs

[Norman Silverstone]

> > <snip>
> > 
> > >  However, I expect that the
> > > > current version of Grub is not the same as the old one and would much
> > > > appreciate it if someone would be kind enough to tell me whether or not
> > > > what I propose is feasible.
> > > 
> > > It certainly is and you don't need 2 HDs to do it. A single large one
> > > will do fine.
> > 
> > I do understand that and the drive I have is large enough to dual boot
> > on that drive the problem is that it already has Ubuntu installed on it
> > and I therefore assumed that it would be easier to dual boot by adding
> > the extra drive.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > How does this affect your suggested method?
> > 
> Having done this, the hardest/longest part of this is getting all the correct drivers into Windows.
> What I did was plug just the windows drive into the machine and get that sorted with the correct drivers and updates. Once that was done, the windows drive was then set to be the second drive and the Ubuntu one the first. Once Ubuntu was booted 'update-grub' was run, which picked up windows.
> This arrangement has a couple of advantages in that it doesn’t modify the windows drive, so no fiddling with fdisk /mbr or what ever if you wish to move it later. and if there are boot problems you can just choose which drive to boot from in BIOS.
> 
This is more or less what I did those years ago. The only part I did not
know about was update-grub. Does this work with the current version of
grub?

Norman