Re: Dual boot win98 w/ 2 hard drives

[David Richmond <drich@symphonicman.com>]

On Friday 28 June 2002 03:50 am, nick lidakis wrote:
> I currently have 2 hard drives and was trying to set up a dual boot
> system. The jumpers are propoerly set and the bios recognises them
> the 40gb is the master with linux. The 16gb is the windows 98. I was
> using the in a removable hard drive tray configuration but decided to
> install them both as master and slave.
[snip]

Windows really wants to be the master, I think; in fact, it wants to be on the 
primary master.  My configuration is that the linux drive is the primary 
master and the windows drive is the secondary master, but LILO remaps the 
drives when booting windows to make the windows drive the primary on the fly.  
Here's the relevant section of my /etc/lilo.conf:

[snip]
other=/dev/hdc1
	label="Windows"
	loader = /boot/chain.b
	   map-drive = 0x80
	   to = 0x81
	   map-drive = 0x81
	   to = 0x80
	table = /dev/hdc
[snip]

I had a similar problem as yours; I finally found the answer in a SuSE manual.  
Of course, now it doesn't matter, as I don't boot into windows anymore...... 
:)

Hope this helps,
David Richmond
drich@symphonicman.com


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