[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 1. I am not sure of this, but most BIOS' you cannot boot from a
> secondary drive. The boot drive has to be primary. You also have to
> be sure the MBR on your primary boot drive does not have either linux
> or win95 and when you install you specify where your boot image lies,
> ie., when install, do not chose MBR, but instead chose, say, hda1 or
> hdb1 (make a /boot or use your / partition to contain boot images).
> When both are installed, make sure your lilo.conf file in /etc/ has
> the correct paths to the two boot images and re-run lilo from that
> directory.
This is incorrect. The Lilo documentation (stored in /usr/doc/lilo-0.20)
states that the most common BIOS limitations are that the OS you are booting
must be on one of the first _TWO_ disks and within the first 1024 cylinders of
the drive.
Only MS OS's are truely restricted to the first drive; the specific
restriction is to the active primary partition on the first drive.
Not sure what you mean by saying that the MBR on your primary boot drive does
not have either linux or win95. The balance of your statement leads me to
think that you're saying you can/should only install lilo to the root
partition. This is wrong. You have a choice; you can install lilo to the MBR
of your first drive, with options to boot OS's on either the first or second
drive; you can install to the root partition (/dev/hda1, for example), but
this will work _ONLY_ if you are using a commercial boot loader, such as
System Commander or the OS/2 boot manager supplied with Partition Magic, or if
you make that partition _active_.
I _strongly_ suggest a careful read of the lilo documentation mentioned above.
If you can get hold of a copy, the Partition Magic Users Guide for v3.0 has
an excellent discussion of drive geometry and booting, also.
> Also, before you start, you can type fdisk /MBR to clear your MBR,
> since if DOS or Linux uses up that MBR, you'll get into trouble.
Huh?
> This is a bit confusing right off, for me anyway, but there have been
> some great discussions on this in the last few weeks of the list.
> Mike
> Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD Resident Physiatrist - R3 Thomas Jefferson
> University Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
> Philadelphia, PA, 19026
Rickf
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