dual boot

[Michael Butash]

Floppy disk?  What's that?  :)

That _is_ an option I suppose, but I think that'd get tedious quick
flipping floppies.  I'd almost say find yourself an old ps2 number
keypad or something discrete on ebay to keep on it, basically to give
you access to up/down/enter keys for grub os switching.  

Depending what you're doing with windoze still, I'd recommend to try
running it in vmware or virtualbox (or vm of choice) to get your fix
long-term, assuming linux floats your boat.  I don't game or anything
requiring framebuffer/directx access, but for work I need access to
visio or other software that refuses to work under wine, and works great
for me in an xp guest.  Virtualbox does support gpu access to the
guests, but ymmv as mine did on this...

-mb


On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 12:08 -0700, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> Would another option be that he can boot to floppy and use a different
> floppy disk for each OS he wants to boot? I haven't done this but I
> remember grub supports something like that. Of course, that's if there's
> a floppy drive in the system. 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 11:49 -0700, Michael Butash wrote:
> > Ubuntu will actually use /boot/grub/menu.lst for the os lists and order
> > preferences.  When done reordering, just do "sudo update-grub" and
> > reboot.
> > 
> > I agree with the others, try legacy bios emulation in the bios, or make
> > sure it even supports usb devices in the bios to begin with, otherwise
> > just use a temp ps2.
> > 
> > -mb
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 11:00 -0700, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> > > Again, you need to find a way to get into BIOS to load USB keyboard
> > > support. Find an old PS/2 keyboard, plug it in, and change the BIOS
> > > settings for it. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:50 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> > > > thanks guys -- OK, the keyboard works "after" Ubuntu loads up - can I
> > > > then assume that it not the problem?  The machine is not in front of
> > > > me...
> > > > 
> > > > Searching the forums, I don't find much, BUT, looks like I could hit
> > > > "e" and edit - changing the boot options so that XP is first??
> > > > 
> > > > Would that work?
> > > > 
> > > > At 10:42 AM 8/15/2009, you wrote:
> > > > > Is your keyboard working at all prior to the menu being displayed?
> > > > > This
> > > > > could be a situation where you're using a USB keyboard but the
> > > > > keyboard
> > > > > won't work before the OS loads. If so, you will need to check your
> > > > > BIOS
> > > > > settings for a "USB Keyboard Support" option and then enable it. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:26 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> > > > > > OK, I have a system that had XP on it; I loaded Ubuntu on it in
> > > > > the 
> > > > > > dual-boot method, and now, when I boot the system, I can't move
> > > > > the 
> > > > > > selection to start it in XP...it is set on Ubuntu, and that's
> > > > > it......
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > What am I missing?  I just can't move that selection highlited bar
> > > > > to XP.......
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > lyle
> > > > > > 
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