Ubuntu on Internal SATA disk

Odd iodine at runbox.no
Sun Sep 13 08:29:09 UTC 2009


MirJafar Ali wrote:
> Hello All,
>  
> I have HP Pavilion DV9308nr laptop which comes with one 120GB SATA hard 
> drive, so some irrational reasons, I don't to mess up with Vista, 
> although I don't like it at all.
>  
> On the laptop there is provision for second hard drive and I want to install
> Ubuntu on it. Somewhere I had read that second internal hard drive 
> cann't be used for booting purpose ( I don't know where I had read that 
> ). So my question to some Ubuntu Gurus is :  Should I go ahead and 
> invest on
> second hard drive for ubuntu ? Will it work fine ?

There's no reason it shouldn't. When you install Ubuntu it
installs the GRUB boot manager which will let you decide
which OS you want to boot. So it will boot off the second
harddrive when you choose Ubuntu.

-- 
Odd




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