Re: dual boot debian & Windoze, need advice

From: stephen parkinson (stephen_at_zmemw16.demon.co.uk)
Date: 02/09/04

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    Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:30:21 +0000
To: Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com>

    Paul E Condon wrote:

    >I want to dual boot an i686 machine with Debian Sarge and Windoze. My
    >situation is somewhat special, so the directions that I find when I
    >google the topic do not really apply IMHO.
    >
    >The i686 computer already has Sarge installed on a 60G HD, and Windoze
    >XP installed on a 30G HD that is sitting inside the case. But the
    >Windoze HD is currently disconnected from both the ribbon cable and
    >the power cable.
    >
    >I want to add an appropriate stanza to lilo.conf and connect cables to
    >get dual boot with a minimum of reinstalling. I would like to have the
    >60G HD be hda under Linux, and the 30G HD be C: under Windoze. I would
    >like to use lilo.
    >
    >My understanding is that bios boot code on an i686 looks at the MBR of
    >the master drive on the first IDE channel to find the 2nd stage boot
    >program, and that lilo overwrites this record.
    >
    >If I do the cabling so that Windoze HD is the slave drive, lilo should
    >not touch the MBR of the Windoze HD. Correct?
    >
    >So what do I put in the Windoze stanza of lilo.conf to make boot program
    >load Windoze? And is there a reasonable hope that Windoze can be made to
    >think that the slave drive is C:? Or will it do this automatically?
    >
    >Or, am I crazy to be contemplating this?
    >
    >TIA
    >
    >
    >
    istr that windows ignores non-dos partition types
    for drive allocation letters

    i have a vague idea that the problem is the stanza
    for windows
    further than that i don't know

    did you install windoze on the slave drive when it was in the machine as
    a master?

    srp 

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