On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Neal Murphy <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:40:40 AM Wally Lepore wrote: >> Hi Debain Users, >> >> I'm at the final stages of Installing NOT Ubuntu but Debian 'Squeeze' >> on my dual-boot system. Windows is installed on the 1st hard drive >> (/dev/sda) and Debian will be installed on the 2nd hard drive >> (/dev/sdb). >> >> The installer is asking me where I want Grub installed. It says: >> >> >> *****BEGIN***** >> The following other operating systems have been detected on this >> computer: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional >> >> If all of your operating systems are listed above, then it should be >> safe to install the boot loader to the master boot record of your >> first hard drive. >> >>When your computer boots, you will be able to choose >> to load one of these operating systems or your new system. Install the >> GRUB boot loader to the master boot record? No or Yes ? >> *****END***** >> >> This is the make it or break it point! Debian is installed on my 2nd >> drive (/dev/sdb) NOT the 1st drive (/dev/sda). I also created a >> partition on the Debian drive (/dev/sdb) called "/boot". GRUB was to >> be installed at this /boot location and then I would go into BIOS >> after install and switch the boot order to boot the Debian drive >> (/dev/sdb). This would then present the menu for which OS I would like >> to boot (Windows or Debian). >> >> If I choose NO to the installer's question as to placing GRUB in the >> MBR of the 1st drive. What are my choices as to where to install it? I >> don't want to answer "NO" to the question only to advance the >> installer to a dead end. I have no idea what may happen next if I >> answer NO. Any ideas or suggestions please? >> >> Thank you > > You may have no choice. I had lenny installed on sda. I tried to install > squeeze on sdb so I could play with KVM and Xen. Grub *insisted* on installing > itself to sda regardless of what I told it to do. I had to boot lenny's rescue > disk several times to fix grub before I gave up.
The Debian installer did recognize win2k and it did give me the option to install GRUB to another location. No problem with that. I installed to /dev/sdb > You may have to pull the first drive during the install. And, if you're lucky, > your BIOS will set the second drive as the 'first' when you tell it to boot > from it. > > If you find no joy, try grub legacy if it's an option. I *know* legacy works; > I can make a bootable ISO that uses grub, copy the ISO contents to a flash > drive and make it bootable with a trivial change, and legacy installs where I > tell it to, not where it decides to because it knows better. > > To be clear, my grub2 problems were with v1.97-1.99; I've not tried it since. > And probably won't until legacy truly dies (i.e., RH's patch set falls into > disrepair). > > In a short phrase, be prepared to stub your toes some more. I can boot from either OS. I just change the boot order to whatever drive (OS) I want to use. Thanks Neal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALDXikrA7d=b97wtnfr8elsqshgtqer8kz4otw0nmcgtaro...@mail.gmail.com
