Dual Boot With no Boot Manager

[ExteelPaprika]

linux brigade!

[soccersport]

who uses IDE cables any more.

[junsungwong]

@soccersport people in 2000-2006, when this video was uploaded

[amoureternal]

Nice, but you got lucky. You should have used a double pole, double throw switch to avoid any direct electrical connection between the drives. DPDT

[hihaatje]

haha i love the part where he says: linux is the master, windows is the slave. haha

[aditya14]

Grub is much simpler

[Airportchris2]

Dual booting 2 Windows OS's is easy, but since he is booting Windows and Linux, he has to do this or get a boot manager.

[rz4prezi]

Why not just use a boot manager?

[emv926]

man i am so angry, i tried to use recovery manager and what happened is that i got an error and when i turn it on all it says 'BOOT MANAGER IS MISSING' someone tell me what to do

[CETNIKKILLA]

what do i do if my vista screen says missing boot manager?

[nickpostoloff]

I just went through this. Installed XP on a separate drive (with Vista on a separate drive, with no boot manager), and Vista told me missing boot manager. I put in my vista disc, and told it to automatically repair bad/missing files (whatever it says it was the first option). I did this and it booted to Vista. Hopefully this helps.

[Cruelshadows5252]

Is there any way to do this with multiple hard-drives, with a switch that has multiple channels? For instance, having 4 HDs, and then having a switch that moves to 4 different postitions, to choose the OS on the HD. You could probably to a traditional dual-boot (using a bootloader) on each HD, and partition 2 HDs to have 2 OSs on each of them, but I'm still wondering about separate HDs.

[angrykidseason123]

you can buy 4 way switches!?!?

[Cruelshadows5252]

Well, I don't know. Kind of why I was asking.

[hihaatje]

hmm i guess but i think it would be turning one's.

[jacobc2]

It wouldn't work as an IDE channel can only have 2 drives no more.

[Zolg08]

I can build my own computer.

but my parent don't rely on me.

they think I'll break it.

[russellbrouillard]

wow calm down pwnagizer1 he was in an age were it wasnt normal for him and all of his friends to build there own pc like it is today.idiot

[pwnagizer1]

dude...I'm 13 and I've built 2 of my own computers and did this from a different drive when i was 10. He acts like 16 is young to be good with computers. Idiot.

[chro123]

hello most people even nowadays don't build their own computers, cause most of us have lives that we can use instead of staying in all day building a computer.

Go play football or any other sport just stop acting like 16 isn't a young age. I'm 13 too and you know what, nobody i know can even install an operating system. Your smart for 13 but you don't have to try to make other people look stupid. 16 is a young age for building computers, especially in todays society

[Adaub7282]

What other society would 16 years olds have the opportunity to build computers, realistically speaking?

[hihaatje]

classical im better then you are. stfu.

[Angelsmoon]

I wonder if I can get it to work with sata drives. Well i am going to go try.

[darigaaz12]

If you're successful let me know, I'm about to build computer and wanted to do this also

[Didleeios88]

what i do is i leave the cover off my machine. then when i want to use windows, i turn it off and move the ide cable over to the other drive.

i do it b/c my shitty emachines only has one ide plug, so master on the dvd and slave on the hdd.

[BlackHatLinwix]

When you see the bios Screen pres an F# to select boot drive, some Mother boards don't have this feature...

[boy44412]

what didleeios said was that his emachines can only have one hard drive at a time, so selecting a boot drive through the bios is useless if one of the drives is physically not plugged in to the computer

[JDCribsGames]

Anyone know if this can be done with a spst switch... it seems like it would but i cant get it to work.

[xcomptipsx]

no because its only a single throw not a double

[gopexon]

Handy tut, but whats the point? Just get lilo in your mbr, 2 minute configuration and your done. =|

[dosattack777]

omg noobs ok for those that dont know lol i guess its good but u didnt event that anyways im trying to find a way to install linux dual boot without deleting my partition

[gopexon]

That makes no sense. Im assumign you mean installing linux without touching your windows partition? Simple, just slap in the install/liveCD, run the install and before exiting, configure your bootloader.

[xxsexyxtacoxx]

or he could use Acronis Disk Manager to simply reduce the size of his master partition, rather than running the windows install, deleting his partition + creating 2 smaller partitions.

either way would work though.

[southontherise]

who ever named the drives the master and the slave is friggin racist lol sheesh

[homie144]

lol

[cylent77]

ya me too. grub or lilo.

[jorgito1987]

Interesante, muy bueno. :)

[kgonepostl]

I'll stick with grub..