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Windows is fussy - better make it the master.   You can still dual boot
and either O/S can be the default in LILO.

Craig Sharpe wrote in message <378BF0E9.34EB6B0F@hotmail.com>...
>Hi
>
>I have 2 hard drives one with Win 95 and the other I want to install Red
>Hat 6 onto..  Can I have the Linux HD as master,  Win 95 as slave and
>access both of them from the Lilo prompt ??
>ie LILO:  (type:win95)
>
>I would like to choose either Win 95 or Linux HD's..
>
>I thought about creating an entry in the boot directory but as a
>beginner haven't succeded.
>
>Any pointers would be appreciated..
>
>bye, cs.
>

Craig Sharpe wrote:

> I have 2 hard drives one with Win 95 and the other I want to install Red
> Hat 6 onto..  Can I have the Linux HD as master,  Win 95 as slave and
> access both of them from the Lilo prompt ??

It's probably easier to do it the other way around: leave
Win95 on the first hard drive and install linux on the
second.  Linux really doesn't care where you put it, but
Windows will insist on booting from a primary partition on
the first physical drive (a Microsoft "feature" no doubt). 
There are ways around this, but as long as you have the
choice, why do it the hard way?

-- 

-John (John.Thompson@ibm.net)

Hi Craig,

You don't say what type of PC you are using.

I have a Pentium II, and I have my Linux (RedHat 6.0) as Primary
Master, and have Win95b on my Secondary Master. 

I have no problems booting Windows from the Secondary Master, either
by way of drive selection at boot up (Bios Option), or from Lilo.

I prefer linux to be on the Primary Master, that way Lilo is on the
linux hdd and not the Windows HDD, so no problems with stuffing
Windows (IT does that well enough on its own).

I don't know whether or not all Pentium II motherboard/Bios 's allow
such booting.

Bill
ocker@rocketmail.com

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:07:37 +1000, Craig Sharpe <craig7s@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have 2 hard drives one with Win 95 and the other I want to install Red
>Hat 6 onto..  Can I have the Linux HD as master,  Win 95 as slave and
>access both of them from the Lilo prompt ??
>ie LILO:  (type:win95)
>
>I would like to choose either Win 95 or Linux HD's..
>
>I thought about creating an entry in the boot directory but as a
>beginner haven't succeded.
>
>Any pointers would be appreciated..
>
>bye, cs.
>

Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@nr.infi.net> wrote:
> Windows is fussy - better make it the master.   You can still dual boot
> and either O/S can be the default in LILO.

Windoze may be fussy, but it's easily fooled.  All that is needed is
to ask LILO to logically swap the drives when booting Windoze.  An
interesting side effect of this sleight of hand is that if/when you
reinstall Windoze it will clobber the MBR of /dev/hdb, leaving LILO
intact on the MBR of /dev/hda.  See
http://www.wwnet.com/~stevelim/booting.html for the details.

LILO version 21 has the REWRITE_TABLE option turned on so that you
don't have to compile it to be able to logically swap the drives.

> Craig Sharpe wrote in message <378BF0E9.34EB6B0F@hotmail.com>...
>>Hi
>>
>>I have 2 hard drives one with Win 95 and the other I want to install Red
>>Hat 6 onto..  Can I have the Linux HD as master,  Win 95 as slave and
>>access both of them from the Lilo prompt ??
>>ie LILO:  (type:win95)
>>
>>I would like to choose either Win 95 or Linux HD's..
>>
>>I thought about creating an entry in the boot directory but as a
>>beginner haven't succeded.
>>
>>Any pointers would be appreciated..
>>
>>bye, cs.
>>


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