Re: dual boot debian & Windoze, need advice
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:30:21PM +0000, stephen parkinson wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> >I want to dual boot an i686 machine with Debian Sarge and Windoze. My
> >situation is somewhat special, so the directions that I find when I
> >google the topic do not really apply IMHO.
> >
> >The i686 computer already has Sarge installed on a 60G HD, and Windoze
> >XP installed on a 30G HD that is sitting inside the case. But the
> >Windoze HD is currently disconnected from both the ribbon cable and
> >the power cable.
> >
> >I want to add an appropriate stanza to lilo.conf and connect cables to
> >get dual boot with a minimum of reinstalling. I would like to have the
> >60G HD be hda under Linux, and the 30G HD be C: under Windoze. I would
> >like to use lilo.
> >
> >My understanding is that bios boot code on an i686 looks at the MBR of
> >the master drive on the first IDE channel to find the 2nd stage boot
> >program, and that lilo overwrites this record.
> >
> >If I do the cabling so that Windoze HD is the slave drive, lilo should
> >not touch the MBR of the Windoze HD. Correct?
> >
> >So what do I put in the Windoze stanza of lilo.conf to make boot program
> >load Windoze? And is there a reasonable hope that Windoze can be made to
> >think that the slave drive is C:? Or will it do this automatically?
> >
> >Or, am I crazy to be contemplating this?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >
> >
> istr that windows ignores non-dos partition types
> for drive allocation letters
>
> i have a vague idea that the problem is the stanza
> for windows
> further than that i don't know
>
> did you install windoze on the slave drive when it was in the machine as
> a master?
>
The Windoze HD came with the computer in the original purchase, and was pre-loaded.
It was/is master. And the Linux HD is, currently, also master. Of course one would
have to change.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@peakpeak.com
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