I'm a bit of a fan of the old-fashioned BIOS dual booting. XP is on the PATA drive, Ubuntu is on the SATA drive. Dual boot is enacted by disabling either the SATA or PATA controller.

Jason

WolfBite wrote:
> Which is why you keep a stock kernel also :)
>
> Go one better
> currently dual boot
> 4 drives
> 1 xp os (games machine :)
> 1 ubuntu & sabayon
> 1 xp ntfs data drive (xp games & files)
> 1 linux data drive everything else :)
>
> any time I have any trouble I can jump to any os and check if os/hardware issue
> I can also bootup with a livecd, set root & kernel & regrub I can wipe xp and reinstall then regrub
> I have a sata switch which disables all hd except xp drive so can wipe and install and xp so it leave the FRIGGEN drive order alone (and protects the drives :)
>
> worst down time? couple of mins to regrub
>
> who said tinkering wasnt fun :D
>

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