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Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?



Hi

	I have a system with Windows 95 on an IDE drive, and Debian potato  
on a SCSI drive, hung off of an old DPT PM2021/9x controller.  This  
controller does not appear to be mapping the SCSI disk to D: like I had hoped  
and expected.

	Presumably, I cannot use LILO to dual-boot the machine (after all,  
how would the machine let LILO see the partition with the kernel?).  Up to  
now, I have been booting off of a floppy, and that is torture.  But it seems  
SysLinux might be able to do the job.  How might I use it?  Can I call it  
from Win95, or only after an MS-DOS boot?  I took a look at

	/usr/share/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc

and it seems that booting from DOS mode would not be a problem, so long as I  
keep a copy of the kernel around, but I'm not so sure of this business of  
messing with the MBR.  Where would that get me?


				Brian


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