Ant wrote:
> In alt.os.debian Jack Strangio <
jackst...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> a...@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:
>>> I told it no to its "Install the GRUB boot loader to your primary drive." and picked /dev/sdb (new virtual SSD) as shown in
https://i.ibb.co/pRKBjBZ/2SDs.gif. I do NOT want to use its GRUB for dual booting. I will manually boot the specific drive to boot its specific OS from BIOS. Anyways, it completed. I told BIOS to boot the new SSD with Debian, but it got stuck with a blank black screen with its blinking _ cursor:
https://i.ibb.co/v4xWdMP/rebooted-Stuck.gif. My 64-bit W7's drive still boots though.
>>>
>> The 'primary drive' is the drive that the *BIOS* goes to to find the boot
>> manager.
>
>> Some BIOSs will allow you to set a different drive as the boot drive. Go to
>> 'BIOS Setup' for that, if it's available on your machine.
>
>> As long as the BIOS can find a boot manager, you can install GRUB on that
>> drive and then boot an opearating system from any drive that exists, even
>> USB ones.
>
> Interesting. It looks like VirtualBox doesn't use the same BIOS' CMOS
> like real hardwares. I will look for them when I try it on my 13 (not
> 12) years old PC later. I do remember it having option to boot which
> drive to boot from. Even a hot key during BIOS boot up to pick which
> drive to boot from. FYI. The physical motherboard is MSI P43 NEO3-F
> (MSI-7514) motherboard from 12/27/2008.
Your board supports legacy MSDOS partitioning and legacy boot.
There is no UEFI with GPT partitioning, no UEFI+CSM.
There isn't even a popup boot key.
In the boot order, there is only "boot from other".
The word USB does not appear in that section.
There is no separate page for USB choices. Some BIOS
from around 2005, had a complete BIOS screen page for USB.
Sticking with virtual machines is your best bet now :-/
The ISO for your desired Guest, will be mounted inside the
container and by the hosting software, so (fortunately) you
don't have to worry about that part.
+------+-----------------------------+
| MBR | Windows 7 |
| | +--------------+ |
| | |Container for | |
| | |Linux | |
| | +--------------+ |
+------+-----------------------------+
Say the hosting software in Windows 7 is VirtualBox. You
declare a "new machine" in VirtualBox, tell it what
distro it is, and that prepares the initial emulated
hardware choices for it. Since it's a container,
the machine inside the dotted lines there, it can't
do *anything* to the rest of the machine. Not a
blasted thing. The only thing you can
do from inside a VM, is a denial of service attack
(use the VM to waste some sort of resources on or
near the machine).
Why did I draw it that way ?
I drew a conservative implementation intended to
"not have you constantly entering the BIOS and
screwing around". This is how I plan my own
layouts - they're determined by the machine
capabilities. The more hobbled a computer is,
the less flexible the layouts.
Your board seems to have the BIOS of an S478
motherboard, and a LGA775 socket. I was thinking
at first "hey, this could be my P4B motherboard".
The thing is, that's exactly what LGA775 is.
It is S478, but with a ton of extra VCore and GND
contacts for power hog CPUs. That was Intels plan
at the time. Fortunately, the Israel arch team
foiled the evil plan, so lower power processors
ended up in that socket :-) Intel had been planning
for a "Prescott Plus" processor. Some part of the
CPU, like bond wires, sets some limits on current flow,
but so do the socket contacts. And my guess at the
time was, that Intel was hedging their bets a bit.
Now, the GRUB for the virtual machine, is inside
the container with the rest of it, and cannot escape.
I happen to have a Debian loaded in my VM collection,
so a screenshot is in order.
"Deb Guest in Windows"
https://i.postimg.cc/TYjrhcb3/Start-Me-Up.gif
Paul