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Dual Boot Woes
(It's been a while since I've shown my email. I'm due for one)
Here's the scoop:
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<<