JRH wrote:
Hi all,
Bit of a good one this!
I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives.
My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed.
On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home.
The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont ask!!), and DiskDrake sees it as /dev/hda, and LiLo sees it as hda1.
In theory, all looks like it should work. But it dont!
When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.)
Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc.
Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-(
JRH
Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the bios report the drives in a swapped fashion. SBM is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
Asa
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