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| ==== Dual Booting from Hard Drives ==== | ==== Dual Booting from Hard Drives ==== | ||
| - | Dual booting between different physical hard drives is often easier than with partitions since the computer' | + | Dual booting between different physical hard drives is often |
| + | easier than with partitions since the computer' | ||
| + | almost invariably has a boot device chooser that allows you to | ||
| + | interrupt the boot process immediately after POST and choose what | ||
| + | drive should get priority. | ||
| - | The snag key to enter the boot picker is different for each brand of motherboard; | ||
| - | If you manage | + | The snag key to enter the boot picker |
| + | of motherboard; | ||
| + | splash screen | ||
| + | keys are < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <key>'Option'</ | ||
| - | If you don't have the luxury of having multiple internal hard drives and don't feel comfortable juggling another partition and OS on your computer, you might also consider using a bootable USB thumbdrive or even a virtual machine to give you access to another OS. Both of these options is outside the scope of this book, but they' | ||
| + | If you manage the boot priority via BIOS or EFI, then each boot | ||
| + | loader on each hard drive is only aware of its own drive and will | ||
| + | never interfere with one another. This is rather contrary to what | ||
| + | a boot loader is designed to do but can be a useful workaround | ||
| + | when dealing with proprietary operating systems which insist upon | ||
| + | being the only OS on the system, to the detriment of the user's | ||
| + | preference. | ||
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| + | If you don't have the luxury of having multiple internal hard | ||
| + | drives and don't feel comfortable juggling another partition and | ||
| + | OS on your computer, you might also consider using a bootable USB thumbdrive or even a | ||
| + | virtual machine to give you access to another OS. Both of these | ||
| + | options is outside the scope of this book, but they' | ||
| + | and might be the right choice for you, depending on your needs. | ||
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| + | ====== Chapter Navigation ====== | ||
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| ====== Sources ====== | ====== Sources ====== | ||
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| - | * Original source: [[http:// | + | * Original source: [[http:// |
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| - | < | + | * Originally written by Alan Hicks, Chris Lumens, David Cantrell, Logan Johnson |
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