Re: Dual boot question

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From: Arnie Owen
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:44

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System is Athlon 800, Seagate 20GB HDD IDE (ATA66), 512Mb RAM, 32Mb Geforce2
MX Video.  Not a year old yet.

Have already tried to install using LILO thing, about 10 attempts using
Turbo Linux 6.0 (boxed version).
I have also now installed Partition manager and have tried to install by
moving the Linux boot partition right to start of HDD (to get around 1024
cyl or 2Gb problem), still no joy.  Would like to avoid using BIOS to select
boot setting if poss, already have BootMagic and that doesn't help (even
though it saw the Linux partition and saw that it was bootable).

Thanks for reply

Arnie

"Bit Twister" <reply_this_article@this_news.group> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:08:35 -0600, Arnie Owen wrote:
>
> > If I install a small (130Mb) 2nd Hard drive to my system, can I then get
> > a Linux installation to use this to boot from but put all the rest of
> > the installation onto partitions on my 20GB drive ???
>
> Your question is kinda vague with me knowing what I know.
> lilo boots from the mbr or diskette.
> If you want a lilo mbr boot from 2nd hard drive, your bios would have
> a boot order selection for D.
>
> Is the 20g drive scsi? If pc is only a year or so old, lilo should
> be able to get to linus on the 20g.

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