Narusegawa
May 14th, 2009, 04:23 PM
I'm thinkig about dual booting Vista and Ubuntu. I have 2 physical SATA Drives and 1 IDE.
I was tempted bythe following:
Creating a 1gb partition BEFORE the Vista one for /boot
/sda1 1gb /boot
/sda2 89gb NTFS (Vista)
/sdb1 150gb NTFS (Games)
/sdb2 50gb /
/ide1 80gb NTFS (Music)
The above is what I was thinking of doing, and in the unlikely scenario that /sdb2 is wiped, erased, formatted then I won't lose grub. Just wondering if that'd work? I tried Gentoo ages ago, didn't like it, but then I formatted the drive it screwed my system. I had to dig out a restore CD to get Vista booting again. I don't wanna risk that again, hence the idea behind /boot
Who knows, I might like Ubuntu, I might decide to try a few distro's before I settle on one I like, my main point is I don't want to have to keep re-installing GRUB over and over and over again to keep a working system.
I was tempted bythe following:
Creating a 1gb partition BEFORE the Vista one for /boot
/sda1 1gb /boot
/sda2 89gb NTFS (Vista)
/sdb1 150gb NTFS (Games)
/sdb2 50gb /
/ide1 80gb NTFS (Music)
The above is what I was thinking of doing, and in the unlikely scenario that /sdb2 is wiped, erased, formatted then I won't lose grub. Just wondering if that'd work? I tried Gentoo ages ago, didn't like it, but then I formatted the drive it screwed my system. I had to dig out a restore CD to get Vista booting again. I don't wanna risk that again, hence the idea behind /boot
Who knows, I might like Ubuntu, I might decide to try a few distro's before I settle on one I like, my main point is I don't want to have to keep re-installing GRUB over and over and over again to keep a working system.