[techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

[Darren]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support wrote:

>And I shouldn't have any LILO issues if they are each a master, correct?

When I tried to dual boot on my old machine, I had the linux HD on the
secondary chain, and LILO protested quite vociferously. Note that even if
for some reason you have to make the Linux drive a secondary drive, you
can use loadlin to boot.

Just looked in the Red Hat 5.2 installation manual, and the two things you
have to look out for is that:

1. /boot has to be installed below the 1024th cylinder of the drive; and
2. /boot must be on one of the first two IDE drives.

For #2, I take it to basically mean that /boot must be on a primary drive.
(I have no idea what would happen if somebody had one hard drive and
nothing else on the primary chain, and a second hard drive on the
secondary.)


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