Ed Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Im not sure if this is possible, but is there anyway to boot linux or
>win98 from different hard drives? I have Linux (Mandrake 6.0) on a 4.3 and
>win98 on a 6.4 gig drive. Is there a way to have a choice of which one to
>boot without having to keep switching IDE cables? Thanks in advance
>
You certainly don't need to keep swapping cables!
It might be tricky to do this if you want to keep the original
installation of Linux, but the procedure for setting this up goes like
this:
First, set up the W98 disk as the master and Linux disk as slave on the
IDE cable. If you have an IDE CDROM you make that the master on the 2nd
IDE channel. You probably have it set that way already.
Second, run the Linux install and tell it which drive you want it
installed on. At some point the installation program will install LILO
(the Linux Loader) and offer you some options:
- Choose to put LILO on the master boot record of the first drive
- Include the WIN98 partition as another OS to add to LILO's list
When you boot, you will get a LILO: prompt. If you ignore it, LILO will
time out and boot one system (by default Linux but you can change that).
If you type in the name of the other system, that will boot instead.
Anahata
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