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> Ridiculously new, newbie question.
> Can I switch the master-slave settings of my two hard drives from
> (a switch?) outside the case. Solder, wires...
> Lilo has shown itself to be dangerous (ok, I'M dangerous) to my
> mbr when I dual boot with it. Loadlin, I can't seem to get to use the
> same kernel on my boot floppy (therefore no ppp, etc.)
> ANYWAY... My vision... a switch on the front of the box.
> Position a: labelled "Linux" sets hda to "master" and hdb to "slave"
> Position b: labelled "DOS" sets hdb to "master" and hda to "slave"
> Can I do it?
> Thank you,
O boy, if i may say so, why reinvent the wheel, just install lilo in the
proper manner and away you go. Heres a sample of my /etc/lilo.conf file.
boot=/dev/hda
#boot=/dev/fd0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=300
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-pre12
label=pre12
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
image=/vmlinuz.slack
label=slack
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
image=/vmlinuz.deb
label=debian
root=/dev/hdb2
read-only
image=/vmlinuz.suse
label=suse
root=/dev/hdb5
read-only
image=/vmlinuz.red5.0
label=redhat5.0
root=/dev/hdb6
read-only
Edit your /etc/lilo.conf to reflect what you need and rerun lilo.
Of course a 10 way switch soldered to all the jumpers on both drives via
a cable to the front of your computer will work as well, if you wire it
correctly of course.
Of course your stumped if you have PnP drives.
>
> Jon Dowd - Ashland, Oregon USA
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Regards Richard.
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