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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: Can a boot start on C: and complete on D:?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.131508.11670@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Sep1.160846.11260@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 13:15:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.160846.11260@afterlife.ncsc.mil> swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
- > I have two IDE drives; the primary drive is a 105MB quantum, the
- > secondary is a 200MB Maxtor. I had planned to dedicate the 105 to
- > DOS and the 200 to Linux. However, after playing with Linux for a
- > few days, it appears to me that I may need a small Linux partition
- > on the 105 in order to boot Linux from the hard-drive. (I'm thinking
- > ROOT would go on the 105.) Is this true or is there a program
- > similar to SHOELACE which will let me optionally boot MSDOS from my
- > 105 OR Linux from my 200?
-
- If you use LILO as your MBR, you can boot MS-DOS from the first drive
- and Linux from anywhere else, e.g. from your second drive. If you have
- an extended partition on the first drive, you can also store the LILO
- boot sector there and you don't have to touch your MBR.
-
- It's all described in the brand new documentation of LILO alpha.5.
-
- - Werner
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