On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 08:34:45AM +0000, Gene Smith wrote:
Hi Guys.
If I got another hard drive how would you dual boot with windows 98 on one and linux on the other?
My advice would be to make sure the windows drive is the "primary master" if that makes sense to you :p lilo and grub will install a boot partition on the primary master drive, which the bios will try to boot off first. The reason for this is that windows (98 and earlier at least) assumes that it is the primary master IDE device. There are tricks you can do in lilo and grub to fool windows (the bios=0x81 option), but I wouldn't bother. The setup would look the same as for dual-booting off a single drive, except your linux root partition would be hdc or hdd something instead of hda something. Does all this make sense? :p John McPherson