I just reinstalled linux on a slave drive, and it went rather smoothly. On hda1 and hda2 (if i remember correctly, C:, and E:) I have DOS partitions with Windows 98, and other data. Windows boots from C:.
When I restarted my pc after install (no boot disk) It loaded straight to linux. I am certain my windows data was not overwritten (I mounted the dos partition to linux and checked it out), but I was expecting to choose the operating system I wanted to load when starting the computer via a text menu of sorts. Where my expectations unreasonable, or is there a way to achieve this. Am I reduced to having one or the other operating system load up at powering on the machine? I know how to get it to boot to windows as a default by doing a lilo -u (or something), but I would rather have the choice at start. I suppose I can run windows via a boot disk, but thats a pain in the ass.
I installed redhat 6.2 as follows: as a workstation with gnome (I partitioned my drives manually) onto this slave disk (hdb1 = /boot (16MB), hdb2 = scratch disk (or, I forgot what its called. 16MB), and /root on the third linux partition which totals about 4 gigs.
Thanks.
markeyd
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