[plug] BIOS boot loader

[Shannon Carver]

Ah, so your separating the actual boot process completely between the two.
This is a good idea if you want no interaction between the two at all.
What happens if you wanted to store say... a local Documents folder that
could be read by both OS's??

In that case you'd need to either have another hard drive on IDE1, or other
storage solution, USB Drive, Offsite Samba store or something.

Good idea though, if you never want one OS to interfere with the other.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Jason Posavec
> Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2006 9:49 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] BIOS boot loader
> 
> 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
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