Concurrent, real time OSes on my system!!!

[linuxiac38]

Is this really true? I hooked up a second LCD to my HP D530 P4 computer, and have two separately loaded OSes on two hard drives, hooked up to my IDE as /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1.

When I turned on my computer, I have Linux Mint 9 Isadora running on the left LCD, and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx running on the right LCD!

They share the mouse, wallpapers, synaptic, and browsers, but, the menus and toolbars are definitely different!

I am NOT running in a virtual environment! I can save and access both hard drives...

I can power off and restart, and this system is consistent in booting Isadora on the left LCD, etc.!

 

[linuxhero27]

I thought I was the only one who had that hallucination. Weird.

 

[Ijack]

I have the strangest sense of deja vu.

 

[MrLinux]

Does the machine use UEFI rather than a traditional BIOS?
If so it could be an explanation...

 

[blackhawk1928]

How do you that?!!!!
I am not even sarcastic right now. My biggest issue with virtual machines I use now is performance crap...if I can boot two OS's natively at once that would be awesome.

 

[audiovoodoo]

This is the second time I've seen this post. Both Mint and Ubuntu are debian based, you probably have one OS, two workspaces and two themes installed.

Open up a terminal on left and right screens and show us the output of:

uname -r
cat /proc/version
dmesg | grep Linux

I'll bet my banana that you get the same on both.