On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:04 -0700, JD wrote: > A friend has a PC with > windows only on the main boot disk, > and another windows + F13 on the second disk. > > Because he did not install grub on sda, he can only boot > windows on sda. Bios boot menu does not allow him to > select the second disk for booting. Only way he can > boot second disk is by disabling main disk (sda) in bios, > and then bios will boot from the second disk. > > Since I do not have such a setup, nor such a PC, I needed > to find out the following: > > if main disk is disabled in bios, and fedora is booted > from 2nd disk, is boot disk named /dev/sda as far as > Fedora is concerned? Or is it named /dev/sdb ?? > > So, now if he wants to use grub-install to iinstall the > boot loader onto the bios-disabled-drive, > a- is that drive visible to Fedora? > b- if it is visible, what will it's name be? > c- Assuming it is visible and Fedora names it /dev/sdb > and he runs: grub-install --recheck /dev/sdb > > will grub-install attempt to put the grub image files in > the root directory of /dev/sdb?? > (Note: as explained above, the main boot drive, disabled-in-bios, is all > a windows drive). > I am concerned that grub-install might damage windows. > > > If one has a F13 DVD one can leave the /dev/sda disk enabled, boot into Rescue mode and insatall the boot onto /dev/sda. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
