From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) Subject: Re: Can a boot start on C: and complete on D:? Date: 6 Sep 1992 13:15:08 GMT
In article <1992Sep1.160846.11260@afterlife.ncsc.mil> swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
> I have two IDE drives; the primary drive is a 105MB quantum, the
> secondary is a 200MB Maxtor. I had planned to dedicate the 105 to
> DOS and the 200 to Linux. However, after playing with Linux for a
> few days, it appears to me that I may need a small Linux partition
> on the 105 in order to boot Linux from the hard-drive. (I'm thinking
> ROOT would go on the 105.) Is this true or is there a program
> similar to SHOELACE which will let me optionally boot MSDOS from my
> 105 OR Linux from my 200?
If you use LILO as your MBR, you can boot MS-DOS from the first drive
and Linux from anywhere else, e.g. from your second drive. If you have
an extended partition on the first drive, you can also store the LILO
boot sector there and you don't have to touch your MBR.
It's all described in the brand new documentation of LILO alpha.5.
- Werner
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