dual booting

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 09:43:32PM -0800, William Park wrote:
> This is one area where Windows/DOS does it right.  Bootloader in MBR just
> looks for active partition, and boots from that partition.  So, install your Linux
> boot loader in its own partition (say, /dev/sda2 or /dev/sdb1).  Of course,
> Windows and Linux on separate harddisk is the easiest way.  You can then
> choose which harddisk from BIOS boot menu.

Well does it work with GPT or only DOS style partition tables?

Swapping HD IDs from the BIOS can cause a serious mess.  I don't do that.

I used to install the bootloader in the linux partition, but some
filesystems don't seem to support that, and everything seems to default
to the MBR these days so I gave up on it.  Also with DOS's fdisk it was
easy to change the active partition back to the linux one, while with
modern windows that is no longer a simple thing to do.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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