Re: Debian 1.31
One other thing to keep in mind is the tendency Microsoft software has
to rewrite the boot record (i.e. remove LILO). So always keep a boot
disk handy -- you never know when you'll need it. (Like after that
Win98 upgrade...)
:)
Jeff
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 04:55:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
>
> > off the secondary drive? Is there a graceful and free way to do this
> > without installing LILO in the primary drive's boot sector?
>
> I don't think so. But you do
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hdb1
>
> for your linux kernel stanza and
>
> boot=/dev/hda1
>
> for your win95 stanza and (I think) you should be ok. I
> dual-booted linux off the second hard drive for a while with Win95 on the
> first disk using lilo and didn't have any problems. I've since deleted
> that lilo.conf, so I don't remember exactly how I did it, other than
> that it was pretty straightforward.
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