Re: XP/Linux dual boot, 2 disks
From: Richard Adams (myspam_at_spam.com)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:48:21 +0200
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:57:27 +1000, ChrisNews wrote:
> Hi.
> I currently have XP running on GA-7n400 pro2 motherboard, XP2600, 512MB,
> 120GB SATA.
> In my BIOS, my SATA drive is not detected, I select to boot from SCSI and
> have SATAlink drivers installed for it to work, so i guess I can call it
> SATA/SCSI unless it's called otherwise.
> I have CDROM and CDRW on my second IDE channel, and want to install Linux on
> a 40GB disk on IDE1.
Simply do what you want, technicly i see no problem, simply tell slackware
to install lilo on the MBR it will install on the MBR of the IDE disk and
leave all else alone.
That meaning, choose IDE for slackware choose SATA for whatever else.
When rebooting you can then choose to boot from IDE and will be presented
with the lilo bootloader screen.
> The plan is to install lilo on the linux root partition,
> and boot with the NTloader.
> The problem is i have no idea how to do this, During Slackware10.0
> installation, i choose to install on /dev/hda1, swap on hda5, and a
> fat32 share drive hda6 (pre-partitioned) I get to the lilo installation
> and it won't install on the linux root partition, i got an error.
Then do as i mentioned above, i do and it works fine.
> Do I neet SATAlink drivers for linux to do install?
Mo it does not sound like it at all as you are trying to install on an IDE
disk are you not.?
> Could anyone offer me some help or point me in the right direction? I've
> been googling for days!
What i dont understand here is, you say your BIOS does not see your SATA
drive but it allows you to boot from it.??? Something sounds not quite
correct in that statement...
What possably your problem is, is that you have not setup your BIOS
properly to be able to boot from both IDE and SATA.
I have a ABIT KV7 motherbaord with SATA and IDE and i can choose which
ever drive i want to boot from be it ide master or slave from the primary
controller master or slave from the secondary ide controller, SATA, ls120,
network, cdrom floppy so on and so forth.
One can have a bootloader on every drive to boot which ever partiton on
that drive he/she wants to boot, its what they call the best of all worlds
in todays modern motherbaords and BIOS's _providing_ one sets the BIOS
correctly to do so.
-- If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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