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Re: SCSI and IDE cohabitating???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Norman Kohn)
Sat Dec 21 13:40:49 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 12:29:43 -0600
From: "Norman Kohn" <nvk@sinai.org>
To: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Andy Poling wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Steven Cherry wrote:
> > Currently, the SCSI drive is the boot drive when I boot normally. I
> > would like this situation to continue. What do I need to do when I
> > install the IDE hard drive to make sure that the IDE drive does not
> > take over primary boot responsibility. Is this possible? Or will I
> > have to install a boot manager that will reside on the IDE drive and
> > allow me to then choose where to boot from?
>
In a similar setup, I installed LILO on the IDE. LILO doesn't share the
inhibition against booting off a SCSI: so LILO, residing on the IDE's
MBR, happily boots a partition on the SCSI drive.
