I have a Samsung Series 3 laptop (model NP300-V5A) that won't boot from a second HDD where I have installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 (x86).
I replaced the primary HDD with a Samsung 830 series SSD and moved the original Windows 7 Home Premium install there. More recently, I bought an optical bay HDD caddy and reinstalled the original HDD as a second drive. I installed Ubuntu 12.04, and its bootloader, to the second HDD. So it should be able to boot.
I have "SATA CD" and "USB CD" in the boot order ahead of the Samsung SSD, so why won't the system boot off the second HDD?
The system will boot off e.g. a bootable USB stick, which is how I installed Ubuntu 12.04 to the secondary HDD in the first place.
I've avoided installing the Ubuntu bootloader to the SSD because I'm concerned it would interfere with the rapid resume/sleep functions of the Windows 7 install, which are really quite nice (this thing wakes and sleeps QUICKLY.). But it's starting to look like that may be my only option to dual-boot.
I replaced the primary HDD with a Samsung 830 series SSD and moved the original Windows 7 Home Premium install there. More recently, I bought an optical bay HDD caddy and reinstalled the original HDD as a second drive. I installed Ubuntu 12.04, and its bootloader, to the second HDD. So it should be able to boot.
I have "SATA CD" and "USB CD" in the boot order ahead of the Samsung SSD, so why won't the system boot off the second HDD?
The system will boot off e.g. a bootable USB stick, which is how I installed Ubuntu 12.04 to the secondary HDD in the first place.
I've avoided installing the Ubuntu bootloader to the SSD because I'm concerned it would interfere with the rapid resume/sleep functions of the Windows 7 install, which are really quite nice (this thing wakes and sleeps QUICKLY.). But it's starting to look like that may be my only option to dual-boot.