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

[Thomas Bächler]

Preston C. schrieb:
> 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.

Swapping the boot device order in BIOS will do the same.

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