[arch-general] how to boot Windows and Arch...

[Preston C.]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> That's difficult indeed. Grub will be installed in the MBR of the first disk
> and as far as I know will need its files to be on the same disk - in a
> FAT32, ext2/3/4, xfs, jfs, ... (not NTFS) partition.
>
> Having Arch on the first BIOS disk including grub is probably easier, but
> you have to do some magic device-swapping in Windows' grub entry, which will
> otherwise refuse to start. I don't exactly remember the details.
>
>

Do you think I should physically swap the hard disk locations? Such as
put Windows on the second SATA port and Arch on the first SATA port?
Thanks.