Re: Dual Boot Woes

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've never used OS/2's boot manager, but I've done it
with LILO many times.  I have 3 hard drives in my home
PC, and can boot Linux from any drive using LILO.
(I have multiple copies of Linux on different HDD's).

If you start moving the drives around (master to slave,
or IDE controller 1 to controller 2) you have to change
the Linux file /etc/fstab and fix the partition names.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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> Have two seperate hard drive.
> The 2.5 Gig has RedHat 5.1 on it.  Been there since May.
> The 6.5 has Windoze 98 on it (games, ya know).
> 
> Added OS/2's boot manager to the Windoze hard drive
> so I could dual-boot either/or OS (from different
> drives).
> 
> Problem: How and where do I put the boot manager on
> the Linux hard drive?  Is this even possible?
> 
> I do have a partition that I could resize (though since
> it's been a LONG time, I don't know how to do this really
> well...I could, but I'd probably nuke the entire hard drive).
> 
> The biggest problem I'm having is when others hear of my
> trouble, they immediately think that I have two OS'es on
> *one* hard drive.  Not so!  TWO hard drives, not *one*.
> 
> I have no way of backing up either hard drive - tape controller
> is failing to work.  Don't know why, don't know how to fix it.
> 
> Can my dual boot wanna-be be resolved without having to wipe
> Linux and start over?  I've about 100 megs of stuff I don't wanna
> lose (zip drive doesn't work, either on Linux.  Damned if I know
> why.)
> 
> This one's causing me some major head-scratchin'.  I'd be
> tickled to have anyone take a shot at how I can fix my
> system so it's a dual-booter.
> 
> >>Matt<<