Re: XP/Linux dual boot, 2 disks
From: ChrisNews (chrisconlan_at_REMOVETHISoptushome.com.au)
Date: 07/28/04
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:41:42 +1000
"Richard Adams" <myspam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
I thought of doing that, but I don't want to have to go into the BIOS to
change which disk i'm booting off each time i switch on
>
> > 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.?
Yes, but i would like access to the SATA drive from Linux
>
> > 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.
I can choose to boot from IDE primary or secondary, master or slave, ls120,
SCSI, network, cdrom, floppy. No SATA, but in the SCSI boot options, i can
choose Silicon Image controler for SATA. So it's a bit confusing whether the
Linux kernel will need SCSI support or just SATA drivers for linux will be
needed.
> 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.
Thanks heaps for you help, i'll give it a go on the IDE MBR, and look at the
SATA issue after installation.
>
> --
> 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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