From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) Subject: Re: Two Hard drives? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:32:42 GMT
In article <Brt6Lz.7Fp@news.udel.edu> radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel) writes:
>OK, folks, here it is: How to keep Linux entirely (err, almost) on a
>second hard disk and still be able to boot without a floppy. Here's
>what you do:
>
> [ ... ]
>
>1. Backup everything.
>2. Repartition your primary hard disk (drive C:) and add a 1mb partition
> somewhere. My 119mb drive looks like this:
>
> DOS partition /dev/hda1 118mb
> Linux boot /dev/hda2 1mb
>
This week I completely repartitioned my hard drives, giving LINUX the
Lions Share of space. To be on the safe side, I mirrored my entire
bootable Linux installation on a partition on the second hard drive and
recompiled the kernel with my ROOT device set to sdb2. Using mcopy
I copied the resulting Image to the C: drive, from which bootlin4 can
execute it. I rebooted and Linux worked fine from D:, with absolutely
no reference to anything on C: beyond the initial BOOT.SYS and BOOTLIN
calls. If your using DOS on your C: drive anyway, this approach would
let you avoid having to create an extraneous 1 MB parition.
Using this approach I was able to mess around with the partitioning
scheme on /dev/sda with no fear of reprisal, beyond having to reinstall
my DOS stuff from floppy backups. Worked like a charm.
Jean.
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