On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:53 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:25:10PM +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > Yes, it was my first setup. hda (primary IDE channel 1) contained a > > windows, hdb (secondary IDE channel 1) contained MDK8.1. Lilo installs > > in the MBR of hda and boots both os without problems. > > hdb is the slave (second) hard disk on the first IDE chain. This is one > of the disks that ancient PC's (like the one I'm using now) used to > be able to boot from. What they couldn't do (and neither did mine) is > boot from either HD on the second IDE chain. > > Even on such a machine, you could arrange to have /boot be near the start > of a HD on the first IDE chain, and the rest of the Linux system could be > anywhere. > > With modern BIOSes, all is different, of course. Things changed > when they started booting from -- gasp!! -- CDROMs.
I hope they changed so I can boot from the master of the secondary IDE channel. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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