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Heya,
I run linux/w98 with 2 HDD's on my puta, although mine are both IDE the
premise should be the same..

Lilo runs in the MBR (Master Boot Record, i think there is some confusion
over this in some other replys...) of which ever drive is set in the BIOS to
boot too (on my system, the win98 drive). Then you set up lilo (its totally
configurable) either by using a setup utillity (ie YaST in SuSE) or via
editing lilo.conf, usually found in /etc. I would totally recogmend using
lilo as your boot manager, as it allows you to send command lines to the
kernel during boot.

If you need any help actually setting up LILO, post again.... i'm sure there
are loads of people available to help.

Dave

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         Dave Marshall (harrykim@moonet.org)

s_y_t@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <7c1jtk$u2o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>I have 2 2gig drives - one scsi, one ide.  Win98 will be on one and Linux
will
>be on the other.  I'd prefer to choose which OS loads by specifying the
boot
>order of the drives in BIOS.  Can this be done?
>
>I'd rather avoid using LILO at all.  Can i achieve this by installing LILO
to
>the boot sector of the Linux root partition rather than installing it to
the
>MBR of the Linux drive?  Would Linux boot if i then select this drive to
boot
>first in BIOS?
>
>Or, if i put the W98 drive first in boot order (under BIOS) would LILO (on
>the other drive) be avoided in any event?  If LILO is in the MBR of the
Linux
>drive, what happens if i later take the W98 drive out of the machine?
>
>Thanks
>
>syt
>
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