Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-20 Thread arthur_dent
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:06, David P James wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help: > > > > I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives. > > > > And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Biggadike
Regarding your third question, there's a mini HOWTO on how to use the NT loader to boot Linux that still applies to Win 2k: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html >From reading this, I have been able to use the NT loader to boot Debian on a different partition -- I'm not sure if havi

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 06:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK lilo will also overwrite win2k boot manager in a way that will make > poor little win sulk and not ever be found again. So answer to any of the > three below will solve my problems, II. or III. being more robust I suppose. Not entire

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread David P James
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help: I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives. And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads the kernel etcetc from floppy). So yes these are separate HD's.

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:44:54PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I make an boot disk for the hdb/debian so that it only boots from > the floppy, but loads kernel etc from HD? The significant line in /etc/lilo.conf is

Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread jani . pohjanraito
I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help: I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives. And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads the kernel etcetc from floppy). So yes these are separate HD's. Now from previous experienc