I am not sure of this, but most BIOS' you cannot boot from a secondary drive. The
boot drive has to be primary. You also have to be sure the MBR on your primary boot
drive does not have either linux or win95 and when you install you specify where your
boot image lies, ie., when install, do not chose MBR, but instead chose, say, hda1 or
hdb1 (make a /boot or use your / partition to contain boot images). When both are
installed, make sure your lilo.conf file in /etc/ has the correct paths to the two
boot images and re-run lilo from that directory.
Also, before you start, you can type fdisk /MBR to clear your MBR, since if DOS or
Linux uses up that MBR, you'll get into trouble.
This is a bit confusing right off, for me anyway, but there have been some great
discussions on this in the last few weeks of the list.
Mike
Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Resident Physiatrist - R3
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, 19026
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith von Borstel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive
Help again...
I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive.
I have a second 850 MB drive I want RH Linux on.
I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no boot.
So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but I can't
boot to Linux.
What next?
Thanks to all...
Keith
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