On Mon, 17 May 1999, Qinghua Sun wrote:
> I guess the trick works only if Linux is installed to the first disk and
> Windows is installed to the second disk. Anyone knows any trick (without
> using Boot Magic) if Windows is in the first disk and Linux in the
> second?
You need to do 'magic' with your BIOS then (most recent, eg. my Asus, will
allow you to boot on *any* IDE drive, CD-ROM, SCSI or LS120 say). The
problem for the dumb OS (if you got a more complex config) should then be
solved with the LILO trick below.
-OR-, if you got a dumb BIOS (can only boot on first disk), you can:
- install lilo on the MBR of the first disk. Does not matter where
linux (the whole system, or parts of it) is installed.
- create a minimal partition on the first disk, where you will
just have lilo. Don't forget to mark it as active (bootable).
Trickier, but safer if the other OSes do dumb things with the MBR.
Need to re-partition though.
TP
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> QS
>
> "JAGANNATHAN.R" wrote:
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:26 AM 5/14/1999 +0530, you wrote:
> > > >Hi !
> > > >
> > > >First I am very sorry to post this here. Is there a better place
> > > >please let me know. The problem is with LILO.
> > > >
> > > >I have two harddisks.
> > > >
> > > >Disk 1: 270MB Disk 2: 811MB
> > > >Linux (Redhat 5.2) Win 95
> > > >CHS = 944/14/40 1647/16/63
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >What should I do to get LILO boot WIN95 from the second hard disk.
> > > >TIA.
> > > >Jag
> > > >
> > > Your problem rang a bell - I remembered reading about it and saving the
> > > e-mail. What you have to do is fake out Windows so it thinks it is
> > > booting off the first hard drive. This is a limit of DOS and Windows
> > > 95/98, It has to boot off the first hard drive! The LILO config
> > > below shows how to fake out MS so that it thinks it is on the first
> > > drive... (Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > >
> > > What you probably want to boot Windows from the second disk is an
> > > entry like this...
> > >
> > > other=/dev/hdb1
> > > table=/dev/hdb
> > > map-drive=0x80
> > > to=0x81
> > > map-drive=0x81
> > > to=0x80
> > > label=dos
> > > alias=win95
> >
> > Yeah ! That is damn correct. And I too know that that Dos/Windoz
> > doesn't boot from a second hard disk. Read about it when I read
> > the LILO manual couple of years back. But it didn't click me
> > this time when I was trying a similar config. Thanks a lot for your
> > lilo.conf. It worked out of the box for me.
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