[NCLUG] Dual boot 2 drives

Daniel Miles milesd at cs.colostate.edu
Sun Sep 14 12:52:10 MDT 2003


My understanding of the MS bootloader (the one on the system MBR) is
that it just says "look to that HD and boot the image in the boot sector
of that."

So, your windows install would be OK sitting on the second drive and
being pointed to by lilo... It's no problem

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 00:03, Jonathan Bausch wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I gotta question about using lilo to dual boot on two drives.  I 
> recently bought a minidisc player and there is no good way I can find to 
> interface it with linux.  So, I had to throw up a win box.  To do this I 
> just cleaned off an old drive and made it master on one of my boxes for 
> the windows install.  This box was already a Slack box and I would like 
> to have it back, with the ability to dual boot to the windows install 
> when I wanna put music on my minidisc player.  So, could I tell lilo to 
> boot windows off of a slave/secondary master drive some how?  I'm not 
> sure where to start on this one.  Any ideas?
> 
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