Christopher Sammet: >> Hi everyone I'm somewhat new to linux but I know my way around the OS. >> When using Grub as the bootloader and it is installed the on the >> primary harddrive and linux is on a external harddrive and the OS on >> the primary drive is the defualt OS will Grub return an error if the >> external harddrive is unplug? oldman: > I believe you need at least the /boot directory on the internal > drive as the grub.conf file is there (this is the file that tells grub > about all of the installed OSs). I agree. Alternatively, you can use a BIOS that lets you choose alternative boot drives, but continually rewriting your BIOS settings isn't a good idea (NVRAM only supports so-many rewrite cycles). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
