It sounds to me if you want to do what you want to do. Then use a removable disk that is bootable. If you want to boot win2k install the removable win2k disk. If you want linux install the removable linux disk. With hard drives I don't think it is possible to have each independent without going through some gyration. When you boot the hardware wants to report all drives and thus the OS wants to mount it and if it doesn't recognize the partitions then you get an error. So what you are wanting is probably unrealistic and frankly IMHO is totally useless.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sasa Stupar > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Two OS - boot? > > Cowles, Steve pravi: > > Sasa Stupar wrote: > > > >>The thing is that I still want to be able to boot any of the systems > >>independently. This means I want to leave intact the MBR of each > disk. > > > > > > I use a slightly different approach to dual booting. Maybe it will > work for > > you. > > > > I have linux installed on one hard drive with grub installed in MBR > and W2K > > installed on the other harddrive with its boot loader installed in > MBR. If I > > want to boot to linux, I set my systems BIOS boot order to "C- > Drive". If I > > want to boot to W2K, I set my systems BIOS boot order to "D-Drive". > Works > > great! > > > > The keys to success (at least with my motherboard): > > > > 1) I installed each OS without knowledge of the other harddrive. > i.e. I > > removed the cables so the BIOS only saw one harddrive. Then after > both OS's > > were loaded... > > > > 2) Linux/grub harddrive cabled/jumpered as master on the primary IDE > bus. > > > > 3) W2K harddrive cabled/jumpered as master on the secondary IDE bus. > > > > 4) Now go into BIOS and change boot order to C -or- D drive. > > > > Note: Since Windows/W2K (in my case) does not understand the linux > ext2/3 > > filesystem type , it will try to mount the linux harddrive at bootup > and > > cause some major disk thrashing while attempting to do so. To fix > this > > problem, I had to disable the linux harddrive in device manager. > > > > Steve Cowles > > > > > This is how I have done it. But to avoid constantly changing in the > BIOS > I have made also a bootdiskette for linux. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
