Larry Greenwald wrote:
>
> Windows will not boot from anything other than the master drive on the
> primary controller (hda).
Sure it will, it just has to think It's booting from the primiary
master. The lilo.conf would look something like this...
(Let's say that linux is on the primiary master, hda. Windows is on the
primiary slave, hdb. Zip and cd-rom are on the secondary controller.
---
/dev/hda=0x80
/dev/hdb=0x81
#/dev/hdc=0x82
#/dev/hdd=0x83
boot=/dev/hda1
root=/dev/hda1
install=/boot/boot.b
delay=20
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
image=vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
other = /dev/hdb
label = win
table = /dev/hdb
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
---
This method has it's ups and downs. On the upside, if you reinstall
windows, it won't overwrite your mbr, most likely making your system
unbootable until you stick in a boot/rescue disk.
On the downside, installing windows from a cd-rom or bootdisk is
dificult because the drives don't get remapped when you boot from
anything other than the hard drive. I keep the win98 cabs on my windows
partition so I don't have to bother with it. Have fun.
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