[lug] 2 Hard Drive Configuration

Bear Giles bgiles at coyotesong.com
Wed Jul 9 18:23:48 MDT 2003


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> You will probably need to do some work on the second installation to get it 
> to boot properly from the second drive.  If it is not already very 
> customized, the easiest thing to do may be to set up the hardware the way 
> you want it and then reinstall RH 9 on the second drive.  It will probably 
> show up as hdc.

You can swap drive assignments in LILO, and presumably GRUB as 
well.  I used that a while back when I had Linux one disk and 
Win9x on a second disk - Linux was the master and could mount 
Windows on /dev/hdb, but I could also boot Windows and it thought 
it was drive C:, not drive D:.




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