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Offline harry-o

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Boot config
« on: July 27, 2004, 09:57:40 PM »
I have a question regarding the possibility of booting to two separate Operating systems installed on two separate hard drives in the same machine. My system setup is as follows: Primary hard drive is an 80GB Maxtor running WinXP, secondary is a 12.9GB IBM Deskstar partitioned and formatted NTFS/FAT32. The NTFS partition is for data backup. I want to install SuSE Linux 9.1 on the second partition on the secondary drive and have the ability to boot into either. I have the application BootMagic 8.0 which I thought would enable me to do this but a support technician informed me it was designed to dual-boot into two separate OS mounted on one drive. To do what I want would involve making configuration changes to the MBR. I believe I should be able to press F2 on start up and choose the secondary drive (12.9 IBM) and boot into that partition on the drive that SuSE is installed on. If I am wrong and it is much more complicated then just that, please advise. Thank you.

Offline pwdr01

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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2005, 02:20:48 PM »
Hi there. I'd say it shouldn't be a problem. If you choose the boot disk from the bios boot up sequence that would solve your problem.


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