hi, I run XP and Mandrake 9 on same drive - LILO my bootloader. On installing Mandrake it picked up XP and configured it & LILO was written to MBR. What I found was that Mandrake and LILO do a better job on discovering and config of additional OS's than Redhat. Now when I boot GUI come up - pick windows and then XP loader comes up - there you go. My system works fine. ** Here is something I did on the PC of my wife(MS win 95 only)drive - I installed a second drive as slave - installed Mandrake on 2nd drive - Mand/LILO picked up all - BUT wrote the configuration to the 1st (primary MBR) drvie. Now if you remove slave( permanent) the LILO boot up still works for Win&linux. To get rid of this - in dos fdisk /MBR and you are back to MS - on XP you will probably need the repair function to correct this.
Refer to my letter on list - to multi boot - you can boot more than 2 OS'S on 1 drive. Refer to position of drive on cable - can NOT cunfuse win or linux - (unless your PC is ancient - when you had you set links on drive & correct position on cable and some dip switches) it will be your BIOS that may get confused. BUT CAREFULL if you move your drive hda to hdb or hdc and make it your boot by removing all in front boot up- linux WILL get confused (windows in this case do not care everything just become C again.Sorry for linux but this is true) Set the hardware BIOS detection all of it on auto - it will work fine. I chop and change drives(7 HD's) at will (only drive link importend) and it works every time.I have these mobile rack and trays. To make this easy set your cdrom/s to slave and all harddrives to master. If you have 2 cdroms then each as slave one on a cable with a harddrive. Trust this may help you to decide. Johan *********************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 5:10 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how? > On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: > > > > which drive would i make the primary drive? my thought is that i'd make > > the 100GB drive the primary drive, as the computer would have to access > > linux before windows to give me the dual boot option, correct? > > Actually, Windows needs to be first, or at least it used to. I don't know > about XP. I recall that Windows ignores all partitions above the first one > it doesn't recognize, so I always put windows on first, create my shared > partition and then put linux on the end of the drive. > > > Secondly...does the drive's position on the ribbon matter? i'm running 2 > > things on that ribbon currently, the 20GB drive and my CDRW drive. this is > > only the first computer i've owned that i've actually torn apart and put > > back together hardware wise, once while trouble shooting for a defective > > sound card, the other time doing a case swap. so i'm not all that familiar > > with hooking up new hardware. > > You're best bet, as long as you don't need to do a lot of disk to disk > copying, is to put your optical drives on a seperate channel from your hard > drives. This is especially true of CDRW drives, where you want to maximize > the data throughput from your hard drives to the burner. Putting them on the > same channel could create bottlenecks when you burn a cd. So I would make > the disk drives hda and hdb and let the cdrw be hdc. > > > i know if i make the 100GB drive the primary, i have to switch the jumper > > on the 20GB drive to make it the secondary. > > > > and a final question.....i'm running an ASUS KV7-RM motherboard that has > > all the bios updates done to it, so that's a plus, but will i have to enter > > the bios settings once i plug the new drive in? > > Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what your bios settings are now. Some people > indicate none in the unused channels to speed up their boots. As long as > everything in the bios is set to autodetect, then you shouldn't have to do > anything, but if it is not, you may have to go in there and change some > settigngs. > > > as far as how i'm going to work with linux....i havn't decided if i'm giong > > to do a fresh install and wipe out the old install or if i'm going to try > > to move the current install to the new drive (someone already gave me a > > link that explains how to do that). that's something i'll decide for > > myself once i get to that point. > > > You could always try to move it for the learning experience and if you screw > up you can still reinstall. > > As far as partition sizes go, 80 gig is way too much for Linux. You are > better off setting up your linux partitions in 10-15GB, and then creating a > fat32 partition with the rest to share your data between windows and linux. > -- > Greg > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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