On Tuesday 01 April 2003 06:06 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:32:37 -0600 > > Teilhard Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > If I might offer another trick. > If the 2nd drive is new and was not attached when you installed Win. > Set your Win drive as secondary master and you new drive as primary > master. > When you install linux on the new hd you will still be able to boot Win > from it and you need not worry about altering the MBR on your Win drive.
But, as I understand it, Windows would never boot from the secondary whatever. Nor would it boot from any partition but primary (not that this is relevant to this). Microsoft always wants to be first on the first. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich?
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