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- From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay)
- Subject: Re: Booting from second hard disk?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.023943.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Dec23.073122.12800@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> <1992Dec28.215324.20287@nwnexus.WA.COM> <andrewc.725618360@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:39:43 GMT
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- > 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.
-
- I haven't tried it, but I suspect you actually _can_ boot MS-DOS off the
- second disk with LILO. On my machine, I use OS/2s Boot Mangler to select
- the boot partition, and use LILO to load Linux. I have 3 partitions on my
- IDE drive (Boot Mangler and Linux / and /usr) and 2 on my SCSI drive (OS/2
- and MS-DOS) and can boot any of the three OSs.
-
- I think the secret with MS-DOS is to make sure that it boots off what it
- _thinks_ is the "C:" drive, which is the first FAT partition on any disk.
- Just so long as your first hard drive doesn't have a FAT partition, you
- should be able to boot DOS off the second drive ok.
-
- Pat -- Have a day!
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