Pretty much. Lilo can do a trick to make the OS see the primary as the
secondary and the secondary as the primary, so if your windows doesn't
like being on anything but the primary master, you can install it to any
drive and through grub (or lilo as well I'm sure) fake it out.
So yea, you can swap drives temporarily, install windows wherever it
wants, then swap back, boot up to linux, edit the grub.conf, and off you
go!
.From info grub:
- Command: map to_drive from_drive
Map the drive FROM_DRIVE to the drive TO_DRIVE. This is necessary
when you chain-load some operating systems, such as DOS, if such
an OS resides at a non-first drive. Here is an example:
grub> map (hd0) (hd1)
grub> map (hd1) (hd0)
The example exchanges the order between the first hard disk and the
second hard disk. See also *Note DOS/Windows::.
alan
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:45:35PM -0600, ds wrote:
> Ahh you mean I can disconnect my current linux drive hd0, set it aside,
> place the new drive in and install Winblowz to it, then add back my
> linux drive and edit the grub.conf file for winblowz and all this time
> winblowz wont get upset for moving it down the chain?
>
> I mean I have to change the jumper settings around and all correct?
>
> Doc
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:42, Andy Quinn wrote:
> > Looks like its a bit late now but if you had unhooked your primary hd then put
> > your new drive as primary you could have installed windows and then putting this
> > drive as slave and reinstallining your primary drive. Then it would have been a
> > relativley simple job to set grub to boot windows from the second drive. (if that
> > makes sense)
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > On 03 Apr 2003 17:32:20 -0600
> > ds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Tears are welling up, I got my 2nd HD today and when I tried to load
> > > Winblowz on it, it wanted to write to -- of course you guessed it HD0 :(
> > > No free space so now I am going to have to totally rebuild my Gentoo box
> > > once again----O the Cursed world of Games I am swept into, woe is me :(
> > > I will see yall in a day or two.
> > >
> > > Doc
> > >
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