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grub in hd slave of floppy

Asked by aletornw

I have windows in my master hd, and i want to install ubuntu on the slave. I downloaded the alternate cd and i've tested it in other pc's and it doesn't ask me where to install grub. How can i config it?

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Áron Sisak (asisak) said : 		#1

You can install grub to the master hard disk and have Windows on that and Ubuntu on the slave one. In fact, if you want to be able to select which operating system you want to start at boot time, Grub should be installed on the first (i.e., master) disk, so that it starts for every reboot.

I am not sure if this solves your question, though. If you really want to install Grub on the second disk, maybe the expert mode gives you a possibility for that.

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aletornw (aletornw-spam) said : 		#2

nope.. i want to change the OS changing the boot orden from the bios. which is the expert mode?

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Áron Sisak (asisak) said : 		#3

On alternate CD you can boot in expert mode, if you quit the graphical installer (press Esc) and type "expert". However, this is really expert mode :-).

By the way, I am not sure that you can really setup Grub to another hard disk with that, it is only an assumption.

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aletornw (aletornw-spam) said : 		#4

http://espelhos.edugraf.ufsc.br/ubuntu-releases/edgy/

look in the alternate cd section, it says: "installing GRUB to a location other than the Master Boot Record", but i can't..

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jz (jz+) said : 		#5

Or you could just unplug your master... Install Ubuntu and grub on the drive you want to be slave. Then when you're don plug the master drive back in and use your BIOS to choose which drive you want to boot off each time your computer starts or edit your boot.ini file in Windows and point it to your Ubuntu installation on your slave drive.

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