Something I forgot to mention. You're a lot better off booting from a USB disk than setting up dual boot. Many years ago I got a system to boot Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux from the same disk. It took about a dozen installs to figure out how to do it. (the installers kept killing each other) Not long after that I installed removable drive trays in all my systems and stopped doing multiboots. I won't even consider doing it now.
The only constraint on USB disk is you have to plug it into the same port each time. But it's a much better way to do things. I setup a friend's Dell D620 to boot Solaris 10 & Linux from a pair of USB disks w/ Vista on the internal disk. With the boot order setup as CD-USB-HD you only need to plug in the disk and bot to get the OS of your choice. Have Fun! Reg --- On Sat, 4/2/11, Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 9:12 PM > My BIOS settings have the following: > > - System Configuration > |- SATA Operation > * Disabled > * ATA > * AHCI > * IRRT > > Is disabled what I should choose? > > I have Windows 7 on this machine and would prefer to dual > boot (yeah > yeah, don't hate me - I require it for work still). > Any ideas if > changing that setting will screw up the OS I already have > installed? > > Thanks, > Andrew. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:27:03 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Reginald Beardsley <pulask...@yahoo.com> > > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > > <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB > stick > > Message-ID: <456777.87253...@web161313.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > Look at the BIOS settings for the disk. In > particular you probably want IDE rather than AHCI/SATA at > boot time. After it boots the proper driver will get > loaded. > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
