First and foremost, it's not a slave/master setup...since the 20GB drive is the only IDE drive in the system, it must be set up as master or single (depending on what your drive allows for settings)
I've never tried what you describe under Linux. However, I have tried it under OS/2 (with its multi-OS boot manager)...such a setup wouldn't work in that environment, because the boot loaders couldn't pass off control between IDE and SCSI. What I would suggest is setting everything up to boot from the IDE...have a small (15MB or so) partition at the beginning of the SCSI drive set up as a Linux native filesystem which would mount as /boot. That way, lilo and the initial boot info (kernels, initrd images, etc) can be on the SCSI drive, while you allocate the rest of the SCSI drive for Windows (as you wish to do). In the meantime, you install Linux so that the rest of the system is installed onto /dev/hda (or /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2...however you wish to partition up the IDE drive and use it). The point I'm making is that, in my experience, all the bootable OSs need to have their initial boot "stuff" on the same type of interface...either SCSI or IDE. You could use separate physical drives to boot each OS, but on the same type of drive. If the /boot directory, as well as Windows' C: drive, are both on the SCSI drive, you should have fewer problems. On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Admin wrote: > My system is the following: > > Compaq Deskpro EN workstation > PII 400 mhz, 128 mg ram, > > master HDD= scsi WD 9.1 gig > with adaptec AHA-2940u/AHA-2940uw PCI scsi controller > > Slave HDD= IDE Maxtor 20 gig > > I installed redhat pro server version 7.1 > on the 20 gig...it ran, but didn't setup the > scsi so that i could then setup lilo to boot to > the scsi with win 98 2nd ed. > ...so I thought I would re-set the jumpers on the drives... > from CABLE SELECT(on the IDE) to master... > and then try again to re-boot... > according to the boot messages...it sees it fine...but > it won't set it up... > when i try to select IT in lilo conf...by browsing to > /mnt/hdb or whatever...all i see listed, is > floppy > cdrom > cdrom1 > > why am i not able to setup lilo accordingly...? > should I try cable select jumper again > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
