tchk wrote:thankyou
so your saying i need a small 100mb section labeled boot on sata 1
then / and swap can go anywhere i want
No, the bootlader (grub) needs to be where it will be read first. Let's say that you have windows and it's on the first drive and so is its bootloader. When the pc starts it will read that first and will boot windows, and if the bootloader (grub) is on the second drive it wont even be looked at.
So grub should go on the first drive that is in the BIOS boot order that way you can choose what OS to boot into.
Install Ultimate Edition where ever you want and at the last step before it starts installing click the Advanced button and set the location for grub to be installed as the first drive in the boot order, for example the first drive is:
sda
sda1 is the first partition on sda
and sdb is the second drive, sdb1 is the first partition on that drive.
So the place to install grub to is
sda
I hope that didn't make it more confusing.
100MB is a lot more than it needs and no need to install /boot anywhere special. It doesn't even need it's own partition just tell it to put grub on that drive (not a partition on the drive), so just sda no 1,2, or 3 etc..