First post, by Yasashii
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Here's the deal: I want to use Linux on my netbook, but I need Windows 7 for work and other stuff because of driver incompatibilities and such.
I know what you're going to say: just dual boot it. Well, I could but here's the thing: when I try Linux, I usually switch between different distros until I find one that I like... and then try some other ones too. From my experience, having this situation while having to worry about the bootloader is a pain in the neck. GRUB sometimes doesn't remove entries for systems I've removed, sometimes a distro installs its own, modified version of GRUB and so on. The bottom line is: it can potentially make a mess I don't necessarily want to have to deal with.
I need a no-headache solution.
So here's what I thought I'd do instead of partitions: How about making BIOS think my HDD is actually two HDD's? Like, physically, I mean. That way, to switch between systems, I'd go into BIOS and change the booting order.
I'd avoid the partitioning mess using this method. Each OS would have it's own HDD (or so it would think) and it could do whatever it wanted with the bootloader.
However, the lack of satisfactory Google results on the matter makes me wonder if I'm the first person to think of such a thing...
So, can it be done? If so, how?
