[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux on 2nd Hard Drive

Fred James fredjame at concentric.net
Tue Aug 27 11:17:07 CDT 2002


Allow me to expand the question just a bit:
I understand that GRUB can do that, and I am considering doing something 
just like that - but I understand Lilo cannot.
No experience myself - but that's what I hear.


Merlin wrote:

>So here's the situation.
>
>I've got a PIV 1.8 GHz with 2 HDDs.  Drive 1 is a 30GB with WinXP installed.  
>Drive 2 is a 40GB, currently formatted for WinXP but there is nothing on it.
>
>I want to install RH 7.3 on Drive 2 and dual boot between XP and Linux.  Can 
>LILO support booting Linux off of Drive 2 in this config, or do I need to set 
>it up with a boot disk?  I really don't want to hose my XP installation.
>
>

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