[plug] BIOS boot loader

[Jason Posavec]

I thought I might mention the way I dual boot using a SATA motherboard 
as it might be of use to somebody else out there.

I have Ubuntu on 2 SATA drives, XP on a PATA drive on IDE 0, and my 
optical drives on IDE1. Depending on which OS I want to load, I either 
select SATA in combined mode for Ubuntu (which disables IDE0), or 
disable SATA for XP. As IDE1 is accessible in both modes, the optical 
drives are always available.

This way I've found I have no problems with either OS doing bad things 
to the other OS's bootloader because they are both unaware of each 
others existance.

Jason Posavec