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    Dual boot question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mikew, Jun 18, 2008.

  1. mikew

    mikew Newbie

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    Hello

    I did search - couldn't find anything though!

    I just bought a DV9820ea laptop, and am pleasantly surprised to find a second hard disk bay. I was always going to dual boot vista with SUSE, but now I figure I can just dual boot from the second drive to avoid messing with the vista drive in bay 1?

    Does the BIOS support this? Or will it be easier to create a new partition on the vista drive (bay 1) and install SUSE there?

    Thanks for the help!!!
    Mike
     
    mikew, Jun 18, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Yes you can install it on another drive. Your boot loader just needs to detect the other OS or need to be configured to do so.

    Are you going to use a linux based bootloader? If you take out the drive which has the bootloader, you cant use the other OS

    Personally id keep both OS's on the 1st drive and use the 2nd drive for dedicated storage.
     
    flipfire, Jun 18, 2008
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