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Linux and any laptop with removable DVD rom (extension bay). In my case elitebook 2540p with i7 CPU

• johnchristopher 12y ago
  You are booting your OS from the SSD right ? If so, which Linux flavor are you using and did you have to tweak the kernel, drivers or anything like that to get it working ? Are you using the same laptops and desktops ? Am I right to suppose you sometimes have to set up the BIOS so it boots on your HDD or does it somehow automagically work ?
  • jkot 12y ago
    Kubuntu 14.04 64bit with no tweaks. I just selected boot disk in bios a few years ago. No magic, no problems.
  • szatkus 12y ago
    Most Linux can do that. Even Windows (at least Vista and laters) are able to work on two different PCs almost without teaks.
    • johnchristopher 12y ago
      What happens if I plug my win7 main SSD into another friend's secondary SATA port (the one in the disc bay of a laptop for instance) ? Does the BIOS/(U)EFI act as bootloader ? If not: does the original win7 detects another win7 on a different partition and then triggers a bootloader ? If no bootloader are involved, what mechanism is in place to detect the other bootable disc ? It's all BIOS boot menu ? (replace win7 with any linux)
      • szatkus 12y ago
        I'm not sure what happens if there another disk with Windows (also I've never tried with UEFI). I think that changin boot disk at BIOS should be enough. At worst you will see black screen/BSOD, but your system will be perfectly fine, so you can plug it back to your computer. If you succeded probably you would need to install some missing drivers. Linux are more flexible. Few (about 10?) years ago I had to change xorg GPU driver manually, but today autodetection is much better.