From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay) Subject: Re: Booting from second hard disk? Date: 29 Dec 1992 17:39:43 GMT
> Well, LILO boots Linux (but not MSDOS) off of a second hard disk just fine -
> if you don't have a spare boot sector handy on the first partition you can
> just put it in the Master Boot Record - ie. install it in /dev/hda
> instead of /dev/hda2, for instance.
I haven't tried it, but I suspect you actually _can_ boot MS-DOS off the
second disk with LILO. On my machine, I use OS/2s Boot Mangler to select
the boot partition, and use LILO to load Linux. I have 3 partitions on my
IDE drive (Boot Mangler and Linux / and /usr) and 2 on my SCSI drive (OS/2
and MS-DOS) and can boot any of the three OSs.
I think the secret with MS-DOS is to make sure that it boots off what it
_thinks_ is the "C:" drive, which is the first FAT partition on any disk.
Just so long as your first hard drive doesn't have a FAT partition, you
should be able to boot DOS off the second drive ok.
Pat -- Have a day!