On Wednesday 19 November 2003 09:50 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Wed 19 Nov 03, 8:51 AM, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 08:34 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > ... > > > 1. system already had linux on hda and hdb > > > 2. unplugged hda and hdb completely. > > > 3. installed a new hdc. > > > 3. installed win2k on hdc. > > > 4. plugged hda and hdb back in. > > > 5. added this to lilo.conf and ran lilo: > > > > Dunno about Win2K but in my experience Windows wants to be > > on the first drive. Try cabling the Windows disk as hda and > > see if it boots up. > > > > If so, then the remaining task is to set up Linux as hdb and > > hdc (make a boot diskette, change /etc/fstab, etc.), and > > install lilo onto hda. > > > > -- Rod > > ok, i didn't know that; i'll give it a try. since i may be writing lilo > into the MBR on the drive with windows, i'd like to make a backup, just > in case. what's the dd command to that? > > dd if=/dev/hda of=boot.bak bs=????
lilo saves the original boot sector for you. man lilo for details. -- Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
