SATA Dual Boot help ...

[Keith Antoine]

As many on this list know I am a dual boot freak, as I use windows a 
great deal for my photography. I am also
a user of Linux and as a boot config I use Grub and have done for quite 
a few years. Up ,to about 2-3 years ago
I had no problems, the I started to get install and unreliability that 
effected both OS's. Had no more problems
than usual with Windows so long as linux was not dual boot.

One thing a friend of mine has insisted that linux on Drive G: and the 
/boot on G:  is potentially hazardous and especially
with a computer full of sata drives (9 in all). So we have been playing 
around with the linux install to HD and have come up
with something that seems to be stable, at least for me.

I installed linux as per usual on G: except for /boot which is installed 
on a 100Mb partition on the same drive as windows
I.E first disk and /boot as first partition, then windows, lastly the 
boot sequence is NOT put into the MBR but configged
in /boot. Opensuse gives the options as to where to install the grub 
boot. I also found an article on the net that then gave me
the final bits:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

That was adding to the windows C:\boot.ini file ........ 
C:\linux.bin="Linux" where the linux.bin is a copy of the linux boot sector.

The article is a lot more complex than my part solution however the rest 
was the same and now appears to be very stable and no
interference fom either OS. It could be that other Linux's might not be 
as simple as openSuse has been.

Just noticed that in the article that one can do something similar with 
LILO.

-- 
Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'
Practising Geriatric retired, Brain in mimi storage.
School a place where young people are supposed to learn HOW to teach themselves
and nothing else. They learn after leaving school in the big wide world.