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- From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: Booting from second hard disk?
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:39:20 GMT
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- vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
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- >lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) writes:
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- >>Sorry if this is an FAQ.
-
- >>I have two IDE hard disks, Linux is installed on the second one. Besides
- >>Lilo, do I need a boot switcher in order to boot from the hard disk? Is
- >>there any boot switcher that can let me boot from the second hard disk?
-
- >I have MS-DOS on the first disk and linux on the second and I use a Linux
- >boot floppy to have it boot linux. It doesn't matter to me if it takes
- >a few seconds longer to boot it since the Linux system is up virtually all
- >the time anyway...
-
- Well, LILO boots Linux (but not MSDOS) off of a second hard disk just fine - if you don't have
- a spare boot sector handy on the first partition you can just put it in the Master Boot Record
- - ie. install it in /dev/hda instead of /dev/hda2, for instance.
-
- Works just fine !
-
- Enjoy !
-
- Cos !
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