On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:30:21PM +0000, stephen parkinson wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >I want to dual boot an i686 machine with Debian Sarge and Windoze. My > >situation is somewhat special, so the directions that I find when I > >google the topic do not really apply IMHO. > > > >The i686 computer already has Sarge installed on a 60G HD, and Windoze > >XP installed on a 30G HD that is sitting inside the case. But the > >Windoze HD is currently disconnected from both the ribbon cable and > >the power cable. > > > >I want to add an appropriate stanza to lilo.conf and connect cables to > >get dual boot with a minimum of reinstalling. I would like to have the > >60G HD be hda under Linux, and the 30G HD be C: under Windoze. I would > >like to use lilo. > > > >My understanding is that bios boot code on an i686 looks at the MBR of > >the master drive on the first IDE channel to find the 2nd stage boot > >program, and that lilo overwrites this record. > > > >If I do the cabling so that Windoze HD is the slave drive, lilo should > >not touch the MBR of the Windoze HD. Correct? > > > >So what do I put in the Windoze stanza of lilo.conf to make boot program > >load Windoze? And is there a reasonable hope that Windoze can be made to > >think that the slave drive is C:? Or will it do this automatically? > > > >Or, am I crazy to be contemplating this? > > > >TIA > > > > > > > istr that windows ignores non-dos partition types > for drive allocation letters > > i have a vague idea that the problem is the stanza > for windows > further than that i don't know > > did you install windoze on the slave drive when it was in the machine as > a master? >
The Windoze HD came with the computer in the original purchase, and was pre-loaded. It was/is master. And the Linux HD is, currently, also master. Of course one would have to change. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
