Hey Everyone
I'm new to Linux and it has been giving me some specific problems with dual booting. I have a Dell Inspiron with a 40 GB internal and a 320 GB WD External. My plan was to leave the internal drive as is, because it has very little free space (~8 GB total) and to boot Kubuntu off the external. Seemed easy enough. Unfortunately I am one of those who got tricked by Kubuntu displaying my external as (hd0) and my internal as (hd1) in the first install I and overwrote the mbr for the internal hard drive. Being totally new to Linux, it took me a long time to discover what the hell went wrong but once I did I ran Super GRUB Disc and fixed my Windows MBR. I also used the command line in GRUB to relocate and remount one of my Kubuntu partitions which I was then able to run, but only through GSD. My partitions are now all crazy from my experimenting and re-installing and I was going to merge these partitions and run the install again, making sure to keep my hds straight. But I was wondering if it is possible, and if so is it at all beneficial or easier to put a relatively small /boot partition on the internal, and then to mount separate /home, /root, /etc and so on from the external? Any time I've tried to boot of a /boot sector on my external, I get the black screen. Don't know if that's because of my crappy software configuring or a BIOS issue with my external. Would appreciate any help I can get- I'd love to get it right this time.
I'm new to Linux and it has been giving me some specific problems with dual booting. I have a Dell Inspiron with a 40 GB internal and a 320 GB WD External. My plan was to leave the internal drive as is, because it has very little free space (~8 GB total) and to boot Kubuntu off the external. Seemed easy enough. Unfortunately I am one of those who got tricked by Kubuntu displaying my external as (hd0) and my internal as (hd1) in the first install I and overwrote the mbr for the internal hard drive. Being totally new to Linux, it took me a long time to discover what the hell went wrong but once I did I ran Super GRUB Disc and fixed my Windows MBR. I also used the command line in GRUB to relocate and remount one of my Kubuntu partitions which I was then able to run, but only through GSD. My partitions are now all crazy from my experimenting and re-installing and I was going to merge these partitions and run the install again, making sure to keep my hds straight. But I was wondering if it is possible, and if so is it at all beneficial or easier to put a relatively small /boot partition on the internal, and then to mount separate /home, /root, /etc and so on from the external? Any time I've tried to boot of a /boot sector on my external, I get the black screen. Don't know if that's because of my crappy software configuring or a BIOS issue with my external. Would appreciate any help I can get- I'd love to get it right this time.
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