Re: Dual Drive?

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Bob Freeberg wrote:
> All,
>
> I have 2 clean hard drives master/slave, and I want a RH8.0/Win95 machine.
>
> I kinda understand the dual boot LILO thing, but I'm not understanding 
> how RH will see the 2nd drive.
>
> Most of the resources I found on the net today concern dual booting from 
> one HD.  I need to dual boot from 2.
>
> Can anyone point me towards some nifty howto's or other resources to 
> research?

The linux installer will see both drives.  Be careful which drive you
specify when installing Linux.  I'm going to assume you want Windows
on the first drive and Linux on the second.

Install Windows on the primary drive first.  Windows thinks it owns the
whole machine and will happily step on any other non-Microsoft OS,
rendering them useless.  You must install it first to prevent it from
clobbering Linux.

When you install Linux and are asked to create your partitions, make
SURE you specify drive "/dev/hdb" (the second drive).  When you get
to the point where GRUB will be installed, make sure you install it
in the MBR of the FIRST drive.  When you reboot, GRUB will come up and
ask which OS you want to boot.  Select and off you go!
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