Ed Chen wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ed
Short Answer:
You could use lilo, loadlin, boot disk, commerical 3rd party software
(ie. system commander). There should be howto for all of these under
/usr/doc or linux.org click support.
Long Answer:
You could use a boot manager like lilo. I'm not famliar with this
method, there is a howto under /usr/doc or linux.org click support.
The way I did my dual booter was to have C: have win95 and D: with
linux. I would boot into plain dos and had a batch script give me to
option to boot into win95 (with the win.com command) into dos (don't do
anything, your already in dos) or linux (with the loadlin program).
There is a howto for loadlin either under /usr/doc or linux.org click
support.
Or have win95 on C: and linux on your second drive. Have it boot by
default into windows95. Create a bootdisk under linux, then when you
want linux you put the boot disk in the floppy. Or without it will boot
to windows by default. There is a boot disk howto either under /usr/doc
or linux.org click support.
Also there is some commerical boot managers out there, one of them is
System Commander. Do a search on www.download.com for this program,
there techinal staff (should) help you out with any questions or
problems.
There is a way to create a win95 boot menu, I don't have the source on
hand, I can mail it to this list when I get home if you think it would
be helpful. It's concept and some code is in the SuSe 5.3 install
manual.
>>Is there a way to have a choice of which one to boot without having to keep
>switching IDE cables
Or you could build/program a small robot that lives in side your case to
do it for you :) I wish I had a robot living inside my computer :(
