From: Gil Andre <gandre@arkeia.com>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Getting dos hard drive to boot from lilo
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:16:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207101612.39491a5d.gandre@arkeia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112070152310.2661-100000@rupin.localnet>
I stand corrected! <grin>
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:10:42 -0700 (MST)
"L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Gil Andre wrote:
>
> > ...
> > This is a limitation of DOS/Windows systems: they can only be
> > booted from the first hard disk of your machine (/dev/hda_).
>
> But you will observe that she used some lilo trickery to make
> MS-DOS think it was booting from the first drive, by logically
> swapping the drives. I have used this scheme successfully for
> years, on my own machine (till the drive went flaky -- haven't
> even missed it -- got to where I hated the frustrations that toy
> OS put me through, and almost never booted it anyway).
_______________________________________________
Gil Andre -- Technical Writer -- Knox Software
gandre@arkeia.com
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