[mythtv-users] Dual Boot?

[Colin McGregor]

On 8/25/08, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> An even easier route, which would avoid the mapping, would be to swap
> the cables on the two drives. Then Winblows would always be !first!,
> just like it wants to be. You linux drive doesn't care where it is. Grub
> will go on the second drive, with its "root" at (hd1,0).
> You just have to remember to set the BIOS to point to the correct drive
> first.
> Geoff

An approach that I have used on my test/development box is to have a
set of drive drawers, along the lines of the following:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817604003
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1196207&csid=_21

The idea being that to change OSs, just shut down the machine, trade
drives (which takes a few seconds) and turn the machine on again...

It works well for me at least...

Colin McGregor