On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:25:10PM +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Yes, it was my first setup. hda (primary IDE channel 1) contained a > windows, hdb (secondary IDE channel 1) contained MDK8.1. Lilo installs > in the MBR of hda and boots both os without problems.
hdb is the slave (second) hard disk on the first IDE chain. This is one of the disks that ancient PC's (like the one I'm using now) used to be able to boot from. What they couldn't do (and neither did mine) is boot from either HD on the second IDE chain. Even on such a machine, you could arrange to have /boot be near the start of a HD on the first IDE chain, and the rest of the Linux system could be anywhere. With modern BIOSes, all is different, of course. Things changed when they started booting from -- gasp!! -- CDROMs. -- hendrik. > > I don't remember the details since it was more than a year ago, but > since it was my first linux installation and worked immediately, I > assume it was straightforward. > > raffaele > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have heard that Linux can boot from a drive in the secondary IDE channel. Is > > this true? And a boot manager will still allow me to manage booting from both > > disks? > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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