Tears are welling up, I got my 2nd HD today and when I tried to load
Winblowz on it, it wanted to write to -- of course you guessed it HD0 :(
No free space so now I am going to have to totally rebuild my Gentoo box
once againO the Cursed world of Games I am swept into, woe is me :(
I will see
Looks like its a bit late now but if you had unhooked your primary hd then put your
new drive as primary you could have installed windows and then putting this drive as
slave and reinstallining your primary drive. Then it would have been a relativley
simple job to set grub to boot windows from
Ahh you mean I can disconnect my current linux drive hd0, set it aside,
place the new drive in and install Winblowz to it, then add back my
linux drive and edit the grub.conf file for winblowz and all this time
winblowz wont get upset for moving it down the chain?
I mean I have to change the
Also, Windows (starting with Win98 if I remember correctly) will install to
drives other than drive 0.
Ahh you mean I can disconnect my current linux drive hd0, set it aside,
place the new drive in and install Winblowz to it, then add back my
linux drive and edit the grub.conf file for
Pretty much. Lilo can do a trick to make the OS see the primary as the
secondary and the secondary as the primary, so if your windows doesn't
like being on anything but the primary master, you can install it to any
drive and through grub (or lilo as well I'm sure) fake it out.
So yea, you can
WOOT install and grub went flawless. Thx all!! I just disabled the
primary drive in the bios and XP installed like a charm.
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:50, Alan wrote:
Pretty much. Lilo can do a trick to make the OS see the primary as the
secondary and the secondary as the primary, so if your
