On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:00:28 -0700 Scott Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The problem is that with this one old drive with compressed 98se, it > will only boot up if it is posititioned as hdd 1 in the system. I > can't have it as the secondary drive or as primary with the other as > 2ndary. I'd like to figure out how to get grub to 'see' the > compressed drive and boot it up, and include it as a boot option, so > that both physical drives along with all 3 OS's installed are > accessible and bootable. Mess-DOS, Windows and Windows NT must all be on the first drive in order for it to boot. I have never seen any of those have a problem with some other drive in the system. What you need is a BIOS that will boot to the second drive. Then you need GRUB on that drive with entries for the first drive. I know that works with GRUB 2 (because that's the setup on my desktop, Ubuntu 9.10, on two SATA drives), but I don't know about GRUB 1. Or stick the whole kazoo onto a virtual machine set to boot to the second drive. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
