[plug] SATA boot problem

[WolfBite]

Yep! that works too (did it for awhile)
turn computer on
del(or whatever)
goto drive
then enable/disable
save and restart
loaded

now days
throw switch
poweron
loaded

mainly time, not having to wait on bios, just soooooo easy. :)


a couple of ways you can do (I did something like the first one, and can vouch)
http://www.mgmv.com/sataswitch/sataswitch.php
http://www.thesataswitch.com/schematic.htm

ok this has dragged on, leave last word to anyone else



--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Jason Posavec <jasonposavec at iinet.net.au> wrote:

From: Jason Posavec <jasonposavec at iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: [plug] SATA boot problem
To: plug at plug.org.au
Received: Wednesday, 1 July, 2009, 11:46 PM

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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