Re: connecting two hard disks

[Sebastiaan Breedveld <sebastia ch twi tudelft nl>]

Hello,
when using LILO, remember that both OSes whishes to be on the first disk,
so you will have to do a drive mapping. This is what I did:
Install Linux on the first drive including LILO and windows on the second.
Then lilo.conf looks like this:

[usual linux options]
other = /dev/sdb1
	label=dos
	table=/dev/sdb
	map-drive=0x80
	to=0x81
	map-drive=0x81
	to=0x80

with 0x80 being the first hard drive (according to bios) and 0x81 the
second (and so on). 

Greetings,
Sebastiaan

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Jason H Hale wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, doel Roy wrote:
> 
> > HI!
> > I have 2 hard disks - which arent connected. one has redhat 5.2 and the other 
> > has win95. how could i connect these 2 and get  a choice of booting either 
> > Linux or win95. The 2 OS's have been installed separately at different times 
> > and so are unaware of the other's presence
> > Doel
> > 
> > Doel Roy
> > e-mail:doelroy usa net
> > 
> As I see it, you have three options. Are you using LILO on your linux 
> drive? If so, then I believe you can include a reference to your win98
> drive in lilo.conf. See the relevant man page for more details. A 
> second method is to use System Commander to boot both OSes. Make win98
> your master drive and your linux drive your slave drive. Then set the
> bootable partition in SC to be either the mbr or the root superblock,
> whichever partition you specified as bootable during RH setup. This is
> an easy and effective way to boot numerous OSes, but has some issues
> with FAT32 partitions, at least the version I am using (4.031). A
> final method which has worked well, is to bypass LILO and use loadlin
> to load linux from windows. The following url gives a procedure to 
> create a boot menu from within windows that displays a a list of OSes
> to choose from. I have used this method to boot win98, linux, and BeOS
> successfully on a machine at work.
> 
> http://www.eskimo.com/~praxis/index.html
> 
> Hope this is of some use to you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> jason
> 
> 
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