Re: conditional hard drives

[adrian15]

Albert Vilella escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a laptop with an internal hard drive (sda) where I have a linux
> and a windows that I can pick to boot up with grub.
>
> I also installed a different linux on this laptop but using an
> external usb hard drive (sdb).
>
> Now grub will work fine when the sdb hard drive is plugged in one of
> the usb sockets, but will fail if it is not.
>
> Is there a way to make the extra boot options conditional, so that I
> can boot up the main linux and windows without having the sdb plugged
> in?

Reinstall grub from your sda linux to sda.
Then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst from sda and add to it the lines (begin
copy-paste from the first title line) of the  /boot/grub/menu.lst from
sdb linux.

adrian15