[1642] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: How do I partition my hard drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerd Knorr)
Mon Mar 31 16:15:44 1997
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:00:54 +0200
From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970331101715.10986A-100000@kovalevskaya>
In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970331101715.10986A-100000@kovalevskaya>, you wrote:
>I already have an ide drive, and I'm installing a new scsi drive; I'm
>going to run both dos and linux, and I want to partition the system so
>that linux has the ide drive, and dos has the scsi(I use dos for music
>production, and linux seems quite content with the current ide drive) hard
>drive; I'm wondering if this setup will work. Will there be a problem
>with booting, since linux will be occupying the primary ide bootable
>drive?
No problem with linux, maybe with DOS. The simpliest way is to create
a tiny DOS partition on the ide drive just for booting DOS. However, it
may be possible to work around this:
A friend noticed few months ago, that DOS will *run* with drive C: on
the second hard disk. There was a somewhat funny setup for a short time
while reinstalling a lot of stuff: The first hard drive had a old DOS
Partition, which was already labeled as linux partition, but not yet
overwritten and still active. DOS was booted from that parition, but
has'nt recogniced it as FAT partition. It happily used the primary
partition on the *second* hard disk as drive C: :-)
It is probably somewhat tricky to *boot* DOS from the second hard drive.
By hacking the DOS boot record it may be possible. Loading the boot
record from the second hard drive is no problem with LILO.
Gerd
