Take the 2-minute tour ×  Is there a way to share 1 hard drive
between multiple motherboards (they will be old ones). I don't
need to be able to write, just boot all of them from it.
share|improve this question This is a bad idea... Do you plan on
booting all the of the machines from the drive at the same time
(or having them on at the same time)? –  soandos Jan 15 '12 at
2:01 Yes... I need some way to do it (note: I do have a spare
CD-ROM drive and a spare floppy disk drive...) –  Linuxios Jan
15 '12 at 2:02 If you can add a bit more detail about why you
are considering doing this, we might be able to provide
alternatives. PXE boot for example. –  Paul Jan 15 '12 at 2:21
4 Answers 4  up vote 7 down vote accepted  This will not work.
What you are trying to do has a few problems with it.    1. Have
multiple machines controlling the same piece of hardware. While
this is possible, it does mean that while OS #1 is using the
drive OS #2 may have to wait   2. Generally this is not a big
deal, and this is why CD