From: cooper@s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Robert Cooper) Subject: Re: 2 IDE Drives ? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 00:13:56 GMT
davisrj@arts.dfrf.nasa.gov (Roy Davis) writes:
>Hi all,
>I'm just about ready to toss linux on my 386 (waiting for that new hard
>drive to get here). Looked at this group for the fist time today and saw
>something about 5-600 articles old about a problem with linux and 2 IDE
>hard drives. I was hoping to just add the new drive in as the second
>without changing the first so could somebody tell me exactly what the problem
>was. I think it had to do with using LILO to boot from the different
>partitions (something I hope to do).
> - Roy
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Roy,
I just did what your about to do :). I put the slackware
release on the second ide drive. Apart from not being
able to create greater than 70MB Linux partitions, everything
went OK. I use OS/2, so I use the Boot Manager from that
to boot up Linux and it is working OK. I can't speak for
LILO.
So far the Linux looks quite impressive. I hope to have
some more time today to play with it and get things setup.
Rob....