Snat Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 It has been something I have been wondering lately. I am getting another HDD into my laptop and I plan to duel boot Mandriva & Windows. Now, I know how to install however and get them both to boot however, I haven't done it how I am about to explain. Right now, I only have one HDD in the laptop which has Windows installed. What I plan to do is remove the HDD and place a new one in which I will then install & setup Mandriva. However, I am then planning to remove Mandriva HDD from the laptop. In a week or so, I plan to get another HDD caddy for my laptop which will allow me to have both HDD at once. However, what do I do about the bootloader ? Will I ned to re-install Grub and re-set them up. If so, is there a very easy way to do this like using a LiveCD etc ? Many thanks and ya, I know I ask alot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 If your laptop is a ThinkPad, you can press F12 at the beginning of the boot sequence to get a BIOS boot menu. From the menu you can choose which disk to boot. This is what I do. Not sure if other brand laptops offer a similar feature or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 It will be easiest for you if you wait and install Mandriva only once you have both HDDs installed in the laptop together. You can do it the way you suggest too, but if you are not very experienced with Linux it could be difficult for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snat Posted May 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 I have alot of experiencing and I don't mind wasting hours to get it to work, I was just wondering what the best way would be to re-install the bootloader so I can do so. However, I will take your advice and wait until I get both HDD in. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 It's quite easy, nothing to be afraid of. Normally, you just have to insert your *nix bootCD, and either pick "reinstall bootloader" from the grub menu, or boot your exiting *nix installation and as root giving # grub-install /dev/sdx where "x" is your boot disk enumeration (a, or b, or c, or...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snat Posted May 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Many thanks. The only thing I hate on Linux is the bootloader (haha) Many thanks for that. I will have a play around once my HDD gets here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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