Re: Dual Boot Woes

[Greg Nash <gregn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use System commander and I only have to install it onto the master
disk boot record. I triple boot. Hard drive one 4.2 gig maxtor. win 95
and win nt. (don't ask its for work.) and on disk 2, a 1.2 gig western
digital. red hat 5.1. what kind of zip do you have ? I have an external
that I got to work if you need help just e-mail me. Hope that helps.

Greg

Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands wrote:

> (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<<