BIOS Setting ... unable to get 2nd new SATA drive as 2nd boot device..

[guntherfurlong]

Have been running WinXp for the past 2 years or so on my primary seagate drive. Just recently acquired a 2nd Western Digital drive.

I have managed to install Ubuntu Linux of the 2nd drive but I am unable to get the BIOS of my motherboard to recognized my new second drive as a second boot device after the first one. There doesn't seem to be an option available for it in my bios.

Am using an MSI motherboard K9N6GM series...

Does anybody know how to solve this issue?

I've already gone thru the UBUNTU forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showth...p=5032136#post5032136) to get the boot loader GRUB loaded.. but after all the steps have been done.. it seems the problem lies with me unable to get the BIOS to put my new second drive as a second boot device.

 

[Billb2]

That can't be done in a BIOS. A BIOS will only let you choose the type of device to use as a boot device. There is usually also another setting that lets you choose which one if you have multiple devices of the same type (ie which HDD, or which optical drive, etc.). But no way can you choose a second HDD as a second boot device, that's what boot loaders are for.

 

[guntherfurlong]

Thank Billb2 for your message... i finally managed to work it out... finally got the the GRUB bootloader to load... just fiddled with the BIOS settings .. thanks anyways... 🙂

Closed Topic...

 

[Billb2]

Great!

 

[Peter]

Just for the sake of completeness: Modern BIOS user interfaces absolutely /do/ let you reorder individual devices, not just device types.

However, doing that is the wrong approach to solve the OP's problem anyway. Even if your OS installations are spread over several drives, there still is just ONE bootloader, which lives on the 1st boot drive.