A question about grub and USB

Hi All
I have a quick question about grub and USB that I can't quite find the answer to by searching. Most of the FAQs discuss booting a full linux dristribution from USB. My situation is this. I am getting a new computer with two drives, the second will be arch and the first will be Vista (for my wife). I want the computer to boot the same way that my wife's machine boots at work so I don't want to install grub on the MBR. So, is there a way to have all of the grub config files and kernels installed on the second drive and simply install to grub boot loader to the MBR of a USB stick? My goal would be to simply plug the USB stick into the new PC and boot arch from the second drive.
Thanks
Kev

i cant say for hp's
havent worked on any in a while
recent machines have been coupleof dell's , vaio & emachine
which dells do offer it at least the ones i tried , my laptop does(dell)
all home pc's are built by me which do offer to boot individual drives
what hp you getting it may tell in specs
are both discs sata? if so it might not offer this option with 2 drives of same interface
check your power supply alot of these preconfigured machines put cheap under reated power supplies in there
& will burn your motherboard i just replaced PS(250 watt) & mobo(845gvsr) in an emachines <cheap stuff<
i hope you researched the pc before buying ie : mobo, power supply are the biggest concerns
i find it much more benificial to build my own machine gives me peace at mind. the cost is sometimes more in $ but not always , your biggest expense is time researching hardware
if you live in usa the best places to start looking are bensbargains.net & pricewatch.com
i am not affiliated with either & niether sell the hardware they are just advertisers a place to buy
for costomized machines that i would trust is unitedmicro.com theyll asemble & test before shipping
i have gotten 2 machines so far from them with NO PROBLEMS with hardware (knock knock)
you may want to consider this in your next venture for pc

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逍遥浪子 wrote:
I have some question about USB communication: I want to make my VI communicate TI-DSP by USB, now, the driver of USB on DSP have done, and there are a test program writen by VC and a driver fold(with a .inf and a .sys files), when I install the driver and run the test program, the driver program on DSP run regularly. And then I want to program a VI which have the same function as the test program, so I unload the driver on PC firstly, then install the DSP in NI_VISA according to "Using NI-VISA 3_0 to Control Your USB Device - Tutorial - Instrument
Drivers". When I sent the standard control request using the VISA test
panel, the status below happened. I don't know what wrong with my step. Dev
Phase
Data
Info
Time   Cmd.Phase.Ofs     ---
----- ------------------ 15
CTL    80 06 03 00 - 00 00 04 00 GET
DESCRIPTR 5.2sc
56.1.0        14
CTL    80 06 03 00 - 00 00 04 00 GET
DESCRIPTR   11us
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USTS   00 00 01
c0
canceled
2.0sc
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c0
canceled
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file?
This thread
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If I want to use my secondary POA-QF to rebuild a user's index from scratch, does the main POA have to be offline and the user out of GWise? That is, Does the QF process require exclusive access in order to rebuild indexes from scratch?
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.
Peter Smick

pgsmick wrote:
> 1. Is the progress I am seeing real progress? For example I have a user with
> over 100,000 messages to be indexed and every time I check the logs, the count
> drops by about 500 messages per hourly QF cycle. I assume that if I just let
> it keep running, it will eventually get caught up and fixed. Not only with
> this user, but with all the others as well. Will my patience (and theirs) be
> rewarded? Are there any gotchas I need to prepare for?
Set this switch for this indexing POA - /qflevel=999 - this will index
everything in one run. It will take a long time, but with no qflevel switch you
are indeed only indexing 500 messages at a time, and if the user has that much
mail, it might never really catch up.
>
> 2. One user has recently had virtually all of her messages successfully moved
> to archive. I can see them in the Archive, and do not see them in the online
> account. However, now over a week later, QF still shows >130,000 items still
> left to index for that user. The POA-QF is making slow, steady progress
> reducing that number, but why is this user's QF count still so high? Does it
> just need more time, or is there something amiss for this user?
>
This is odd, because really the index count should drop to nothing, but with the
above switch this might get resolved as well.
> 3. I may want to rebuild indexes for single users from scratch. I have seen
> the TID 3105742 which tells how to do this: Essentially you turn off mail
> delivery functions, and make some other switch changes to dedicate the POA to
> indexing for just a single user, and then you let the POA rebuild the indexes.
> The implication of that scenario is that the POA is now enjoying exclusive
> access to the user's databases.
Not really - the POA is not enjoying exclusive access to the user's database,
the indexer is just avoiding an attempt to index anything else.
> If I want to use my secondary POA-QF to rebuild a user's index from scratch,
> does the main POA have to be offline and the user out of GWise? That is, Does
> the QF process require exclusive access in order to rebuild indexes from
> scratch?
No - QF never requires exclusive access. That said, you may find that an
extremely vigorous QF can cause slowdowns for the user.
Danita
Novell Knowledge Partner
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http://mrncciew.com/2013/03/16/configuring-rrm/
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