On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> At 07:44 2000-03-21 -0500, McLaughlin, David wrote:
> >I am rebuilding a computer at home and need to know if linux will boot from
> >an ide hard drive setup as a primary slave? This will be a dual boot
> >machine with windows98 (for games) on the primary master and linux (for
> >everything else) on the primary slave.
>
> You might consider setting the Windows drive as the primary slave and the
> Linux drive as primary master. You can set LILO to boot Windows by default
> with the command "lilo -D win98" (assuming the Win98 disk is labeled
> "win98" in /etc/lilo.conf).
>
It shouldn't matter where you put linux. As long as you have LILO
installed to the MBR of the primary boot device (master) and have
/boot in the first 1024 cylinders of the linux drive, it should work.
In the /etc/lilo.conf file, there is the boot variable, which should be
set to /dev/hdb for the second drive (the primary slave) and the root
variable in the image= stanza should be a partition on hdb also
(e.g. /dev/hdb5):
If you choose custom setup during the installation, when Disk Druid
starts up, you merely choose hdb and then add partitions.
When it asks where to put lilo, tell it the Master Boot Record
(MBR) which will put it in the MBR of the first, primary drive.
This is what you want.
During your install of linux, just leave the first drive, /dev/hda
alone (except for writing lilo to the MBR).
You can choose which OS to boot by default (if you don't specify something
in time at the LILO prompt) by simpy editing /etc/lilo.conf to say:
default=win98 or default=dos or default=linux
which is what the command lilo -d accomplishes.
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