One other thing to keep in mind is the tendency Microsoft software has to rewrite the boot record (i.e. remove LILO). So always keep a boot disk handy -- you never know when you'll need it. (Like after that Win98 upgrade...)
:) Jeff On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:55:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this > > without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector? > > I don't think so. But you do > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hdb1 > > for your linux kernel stanza and > > boot=/dev/hda1 > > for your win95 stanza and (I think) you should be ok. I > dual-booted linux off the second hard drive for a while with Win95 on the > first disk using lilo and didn't have any problems. I've since deleted > that lilo.conf, so I don't remember exactly how I did it, other than > that it was pretty straightforward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
