On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:14, Asa Rossoff wrote: > JRH wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Bit of a good one this! > > > > I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. > > > > My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. > > > > On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: > > /home. > > > > The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont ask!!), and DiskDrake sees it as > > /dev/hda, and LiLo sees it as hda1. > > > > In theory, all looks like it should work. But it dont! > > > > When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message > > (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any > > key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) > > > > Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc. > > > > Any Ideas?? or am I just hoping for too much? :-( > > > > JRH
Now I do my dual OS - dual HDD soulution with W2k, and it works like a charm: Lilo and linux on HDD1, w2k mbr & OS on HDD2. Lilo can boot either OS, and both drives can boot without the other drive's mbr. But back in the days of W98, I had w98 mbr & OS on HDD1, and lilo & lin on HDD2, and I had a boot floppy to boot the system with. I know. Boot floppy? In the 21st century? This way though, if I took one HDD home with me (I did that a lot), I could boot up from the other one without any hassle. I never really used the floppy drive for anything else, so at least it wasn't redundant. cheers Andras
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