Thank you all. W2K definitely seems to demand /dev/hda1. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a laptop, supplied by my company, w/ W2K installed in a single partition on the "first" harddrive. I also have a second harddrive on which I have shown that I can install LM9 and use Samba to connect to my company network and be productive (vs W2K where I wait for everything). I can swap the two drives and place either in the first or second position. Since there are some things for which I must continue to use W2K, but I don't want to muck with the company drive (or its MBR), I'd like to setup my own drive w/ Lilo in the MBR allowing me the option of booting to LM9 or W2K. I don't have access to W2K install disks. Can I create a small windows partition on the new /dev/hda1 and make a copy of bboot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr there? Do I need to modify boot.ini? How should I do so or where can I go for info? (I can handle the LM installation.) TIA Paul
On Friday 17 January 2003 03:05 pm, _nasturtium wrote: > Hello! > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:51 pm, civileme wrote: > > On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:04 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > > What is the correct lilo.conf entry for Windows2K on a second hard disk > > > (/dev/hdc)? W2K is the only OS on that disk and there is only one > > > partition on that disk. > > > > AFAIK there is NO correct entry for that situation. I don't believe the > > win2K bootloader will handle that. > > Yes and no (see below). > > > Your LILO entry is correct if win2K would actually boot from other than > > the first IDE device. Frankly, as I remember I was flagged by the > > windows installer when a customer asked for that setup and it told me > > Windows had to be (at least partially) on the first disk, so the > > installation is a good > > AFAIK you're correct, the first hard disk needs to have ntdetect.com, ntldr > and a boot.ini installed for windows 2000 to boot. However, once those > files are there you can boot from any hard disk. A typical boot.ini entry > might be: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT.0="Microsoft Windows > 2000 Professional -NT5" /fastdetect > > Of course NT setup would create the appropriate settings; you might for > example have Windows98 or even DOS installed, Command Console et al. > So win2k can only boot from the first device, but can be mainly installed > elsewhere... > > > question... Did you install windows in that position? I remember > > installing windows on other than /dev/hda in an IDE setup, but that was > > with /dev/hda known to the BIOS as an LS120, and in that case linux and > > windows booted off of /dev/hdc which was the first genuine hard drive. > > > > Civileme > > > > People "curse and fix it" according to one vehement linux critic. > > I hope you're not talking about me =P > > Regards, > _nasturtium
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