bah, fine, i will just keep the case off and recable the drives every
wednesday for the tourney. i have to reboot anyway, what's
a few extra seconds?
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Jim Westbrook wrote:
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:14:03 -0600
> To: tom carlile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Jim Westbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: another LILO issue
>
> You've just run into one of the DOS throw-backs of the entire Winxxx
> product
> line. They, like DOS, *MUST* be the first OS on the first drive in the
> system.
> If you were to reverse the drive assignments (C: -> D: and vice versa)
> and then
> install LILO to the C: drive, it would work as you desire. You'll never
> get
> Winxxx to boot from the D: drive.
>
> JimW
>
> tom carlile wrote:
> >
> > basically i want to be able to load one os off one drive
> > and another off another drive, using lilo.
> > at work i have 2 ide drives in my workstation, one i
> > installed linux on while the other sat on my desk,
> > then i removed the linux drive and installed win2k
> > on the 2nd drive.
> > (note the only reason i am installing win2k is due to
> > the weekly Unreal Tournament tournaments)
> > so then i put them both in the box, the linux
> > drive being the primary ide drive and setup my
> > lilo.conf as follows:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > map=/boot/System.map
> > vga=extended
> > prompt
> > timeout=20
> > compact
> > image=/boot/linux-2.2.14
> > root=/dev/hda1
> > label=linux-2.2.14
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/hdb1
> > table=/dev/hdb
> > label=windows2000
> >
> > this seems like it would allow me to choose
> > linux or win2k at the LILO prompt and boot
> > from the respective drive to that OS. linux
> > boots fine with this configuration, when i select
> > windows2000 it responds with
> > "Loading windows2000" but hangs.
> >
> > i've been reading lilo docs and guides, etc. some
> > people i've asked have said it's impossible (?) and
> > others say they have done it. can anyone lend
> > a hand here? i guess i could just rewire the drives
> > everytime i want to play Unreal, but that is
> > substantially bogus.
> >
> > --
> > tom carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > professional systems wrangler http://sacrilege.org
> >
> >
>
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