I want to dual boot an i686 machine with Debian Sarge and Windoze. My situation is somewhat special, so the directions that I find when I google the topic do not really apply IMHO.
The i686 computer already has Sarge installed on a 60G HD, and Windoze XP installed on a 30G HD that is sitting inside the case. But the Windoze HD is currently disconnected from both the ribbon cable and the power cable.
I want to add an appropriate stanza to lilo.conf and connect cables to get dual boot with a minimum of reinstalling. I would like to have the 60G HD be hda under Linux, and the 30G HD be C: under Windoze. I would like to use lilo.
My understanding is that bios boot code on an i686 looks at the MBR of the master drive on the first IDE channel to find the 2nd stage boot program, and that lilo overwrites this record.
If I do the cabling so that Windoze HD is the slave drive, lilo should not touch the MBR of the Windoze HD. Correct?
So what do I put in the Windoze stanza of lilo.conf to make boot program load Windoze? And is there a reasonable hope that Windoze can be made to think that the slave drive is C:? Or will it do this automatically?
Or, am I crazy to be contemplating this?
TIA
istr that windows ignores non-dos partition types for drive allocation letters
i have a vague idea that the problem is the stanza for windows further than that i don't know
did you install windoze on the slave drive when it was in the machine as a master?
srp
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