Many thanks bitsnpcs, for your reply.
Yes, I remember fiddling around with 'jumpers' on old IDE drives, but our laptops are not that old - all of them use SATA drives (SSDs), and so I haven't had to bother with main/slave settings.
I always enter the BIOS for adjusting the settings for boot priority.
In the end I worked out what do do for setting up a dual-boot system on a dual-drive laptop, where each OS is on a different physical drive, rather than the more common method where both OSes are installed on the same drive and the second drive is used as /home
I will post this as a tutorial in the next week or so and put the link here, and also give my reasons for dual-booting in this way.
Thanks again bitsnpcs, always interesting to read your posts and always a pleasure to read your replies 8)
Cheers
Mike
Yes, I remember fiddling around with 'jumpers' on old IDE drives, but our laptops are not that old - all of them use SATA drives (SSDs), and so I haven't had to bother with main/slave settings.
I always enter the BIOS for adjusting the settings for boot priority.
In the end I worked out what do do for setting up a dual-boot system on a dual-drive laptop, where each OS is on a different physical drive, rather than the more common method where both OSes are installed on the same drive and the second drive is used as /home
I will post this as a tutorial in the next week or so and put the link here, and also give my reasons for dual-booting in this way.
Thanks again bitsnpcs, always interesting to read your posts and always a pleasure to read your replies 8)
Cheers
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work