On Wed 10 Oct 2012 at 17:24:16 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > Nice planning. There is sufficient room on /. I'd do without the boot > > partition but it does no harm. > > I must use the boot partition. I will be dual booting windows and > debian. As a last step, I will change the boot order in BIOS when all > is completed. I will boot to sdb drive which will present me with a > menu as to what OS I would like to boot (windows or Debian). > > See this link. It has 2 pages. Please read the end of page 2: > http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23/dual-boot-ubuntu-12-04-and-windows-7-on-a-computer-with-2-hard-drives/
I've read the article and follow its basic idea of having Windows and Debian on separate drives and changing the boot order in the BIOS. The author advises four partitions, one being /boot. This is not a prerequisite for the booting scheme to work but a preference, like having /var on a separate partition. GRUB will find its files whether they are on / or /boot. But, as I implied above, it's of no great consequence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121010232219.GL30872@desktop
