[ILUG] Two Hard Drives Boot Problem

[ger]

Marek

I had posted a description about how to dual boot with 2 drives on the old 
website. So maybe some one has a copy of the old site they could post the 
relevent page here.

My System still has two drives but I have since made both drive linux file 
systems so I have lost the lilo.conf that I had.

 From Memory

You install Linux on First Primary Drive with LILO in the MBR and Windows 
on the second drive.

You will edit your lilo.conf to swap the drive bios numbers for your 
Windows Label option.

Windows needs to boot from the First Primary IDE Drive on the first Primary 
Partition. This hack will do this for you even if the drive is not on the 
First Primary IDE

The exact syntax for the lilo.conf was on the old website.

Hope this helps

Regards Ger

You add .At 10:08 23/01/02 +0000, Marek Mc Gann wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Just inherited a wonderful new machine with 10GB and 40GB hard drives (both
>IDE).
>
>Mandrake 8.1 went onto the 40GB one with no difficulty, but now neither
>Linux nor Windoze will boot (it was used to booting from the 10GB). Having a
>trawl around the web suggests that I've not got the second drive set to
>bootable (silly me), but should this be interfering with Win98 too?
>
>Linux gives me that lovely welcome in a hundred languages, indicates init
>2.78 is going to work, then hangs.
>
>Windows says something about a chainloader and does the same.
>
>Any help greatly appreciated,
>
>Marek
>(Still a newbie)
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