"Setting GRUB up" isn't something you generally have to do any more :) Ubuntu installation will take care of it for you. Nowadays dual-booting has become REALLY easy... I recommend it over switching BIOS settings, it's much easier.
If both drives are on the same IDE cable then yes, one is master, and one is slave. The arrangements should be shown on the back of the disks. Matthew. On 7/26/07, Keith Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For some time now, I have had two hard drives, each in its own plug-in mobile hard drive caddy. One has XP on it (which I still need :-( and the other has Ubuntu on it. So I have just plugged in whichever OS I wanted. I'm thinking of doing away with the hard drive caddies and installing both drives inside the computer. For ease, XP would remain on its existing drive and be plugged into the 'master' plug on the ribbon cable. The Ubuntu drive would be plugged into the 'slave' plug on the IDE ribbon cable. Ubuntu would probably be a reinstall on a new, larger hard drive, but I've not decided yet. I see that, if I press F8 during the BIOS boot, I can select what I boot from (different DVD drives or different hard drives). Selecting the appropriate hard drive from F8, I think, would be better than messing about setting GRUB up for dual booting. (Something which I don't know how to do at the moment!) It would mean that I don't have to do anything to the XP drive. Is what I want to do, using F8 feasible, or would I be better setting GRUB up? With two hard drives, how are the jumpers set up? One master and one slave, both master, or how? I also have two DVD drives, one is just a player and one which will record. Any advice will be very gratefully received. Many thanks Keith -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
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