On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:34, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:38, Manas Laha wrote: > > LILO _does_ boot Linux from /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. I use this kind of > > booting all the time. So far I've not tried to see how well LILO boots > > Windows from hdb or hdc, but Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay can tell us if his > > setup is working (he has Linux on hda and Win98 on hdc). > > > > I have LILO on the MBR of hda. > > > of course lilo can boot an OS that resides on hdb or hdc. i myself have > two hard disks, with 'doze on hda and linux on hdb. > > but maybe he means something else. is he trying to put lilo on the mbr > of hdb or hdc? i don't know whether that will work. anyone with > experience in this? > > and when he says first hard disk, does he mean hda, or any hard disk > that comes first in the hda/b/c/d sequence? i mean, if someone has only > one disk and it is set up as hdc, can lilo work from the mbr? > Sure! My box works in that way -sdg-
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