[6579] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Help :) LILO boot Installation errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willem Riede)
Thu Nov 28 13:48:16 1996
From: "Willem Riede" <wriede@monmouth.com>
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:45:58 -0500
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> From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 27 November, 1996 22:47
>
> Zach Hall wrote:
> > Drive 1 (1 GIG)
> >
> > Contains just one DOS partition on which I run Windows
NT 4.0, and DOS 6.0.
> >
> > Drive 2 (1 GIG)
> >
> > hdb1 : contains a 500M DOS partition which I use with
Windows NT 4.0
> > hdb2 : contains a 453M Linux partition which is root
(/)
> > hdb3 : contains a 50M Linux partition which is /home
> > hdb4 : contains a 30M Linux swap partition
> >
> > Also, both drives and CDROM are EIDE. In DOS (before I
installed Linux
> > and killed drive E:) they would have been :
> >
> > C: (1 GIG main)
> > D: (500 meg)
> > E: (500 meg)
> > F: (cdrom)
> >
> > Thanks, I'd be grateful for any help you could give me in this
matter..
> > maybe this a foreshadow of things to come.. gah.. no no.
> >
> > zach hall
>
> If these drives are IDE, lilo, nor anything else I am aware of, will
> allow someone to boot from the second drive. One may only boot a drive
> from the primary drive on a given IDE bus.
>
> Paul Anderson
>
This is not entirely true, as I have 2 IDE disks, the first used with
win95, the second with Linux. I have LILO use the MBR of the 1st disk, with
two options, boot win95 on hda1, or Linux on hdb2 (my hdb1 is swap). So
what Zach wants to do is possible, unless NT interferes, I seem to remember
seeing mail regarding that on this list...
FWIW, Willem Riede.
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