[K12OSN] Dual boot using separate hard drives

[John P. Conlon]

I read it completely.  It turned out that my confusion was being aided 
and abetted by a drive with a damaged sector.  I traded it out and the 
problems went away.

Gavin Chester wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:43 -0400, Jon White wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:19, John P. Conlon wrote:
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>>>My concern is that I need Grub on the C: or first booting hard
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>>drive 
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>>>which will be where windows will be at.  I don't really want to
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>>mess 
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>>>with windows loaders.
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>>My understanding (and I've done it a few times successfully), is that
>>you load Windows first (letting it take the whole hard drive as is
>>default).
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>>Then when you load Linux, the installer can figure out to setup the
>>boot
>>loader appropriately without any additional configuration necessary on
>>your part.
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>Hmm, just like I said in the first reply posted to the list on this
>thread.  Maybe I just say too much and people stop reading before the
>end of my posts - even the poster of the original question. But then
>again, I think incr...zzzz  ;-)    
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