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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers First Time Linux(Ubuntu) user, Installing Post 302427521 by pludi on Monday 7th of June 2010 01:32:50 AM
Old 06-07-2010
Hello, and welcome!

Yes, you could physically switch around your disks every time you want to switch the OS, but that's rather cumbersome. It's much easier to
  1. Boot into the Ubuntu installation
  2. Tell it to install onto the second disk
  3. and let it install the boot manager.
The boot manager (GRUB) can go either into the MBR (Master Boot Record) or the boot record of the second disk. The first option will let you boot either OS without any changes, but you'll have to do some work if you don't want that anymore. The second option will require you to tell the BIOS which disk to boot off every time (for recent BIOS versions there's a hotkey for that, usually the escape key).
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

nv_sata

nv_sata(7D)							      Devices							       nv_sata(7D)

NAME

       nv_sata - Nvidia ck804/mcp55 SATA controller driver

SYNOPSIS

       sata@unit-address

DESCRIPTION

       The  nv_sata  driver is a SATA HBA driver that supports Nvidia ck804 and mcp55 SATA HBA controllers.	 Note that while these Nvidia con-
       trollers support standard SATA features including SATA-II drives, NCQ, hotplug and ATAPI drives, the driver currently does not support  NCQ
       features.

CONFIGURATION

       The nv_sata module contains no user configurable parameters.

FILES

       /kernel/drv/nv_sata

	   32-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

       /kernel/drv/amd64/nv_sata

	   64-bit ELF kernel module (x86).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attribute:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWnvsata		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cfgadm(1M), cfgadm_sata(1M), prtconf(1M), sata(7D), sd(7D)

       Writing Device Drivers

SunOS 5.11							    22 Jul 2008 						       nv_sata(7D)
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