[techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

[Jeff]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 07:29:11PM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:40:25 -0500 (CDT), Darren <darren at osadchuk.org> said:
> 
> 
> >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.)
> 
> Older versions of LILO could only access one IDE controller, so the
> boot has to be on IDE 0, master or slave.  I have it to understand
> that with newer versions of LILO and/or newer BIOSes this is no longer 
> the case, but don't quote me on that.

Ok, now I need to jump in on this one.  A year and 8 months ago, when I
installed SuSE 5.3 on an older P120, I dualbooted with win95.  I had two
drives, one linux (hdc),and windows (hda).  I can attest that this
should no longer be a problem ;)

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Jeff
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