[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Glenn Murray]

This is certainly interesting.  How much trouble is it to swap the
hard drives?  They are cable select, and it is easy to enough to swap
the ribbon cable plugs.  What's involved with the OS(s)?  Naively, I
would just replace "hdb" with "hda" in /etc/fstab, write lilo to hda,
and have lilo point to hdb1 to boot Windoze.  Would that be it?

I admit I haven't had time to try Dan's suggestion, though.  Perhaps
later today.

Thanks,
Glenn Murray
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray

On 2 Jun 2002, Hugh Brown wrote:

> In the past, it has been my experience that windows on /dev/hda and
> linux on /dev/hdb will not work with lilo.  We always had to use a boot
> floppy.  Lilo wanted to have a /boot partition on /dev/hda.
>
> I don't know what grub is capable of in that regard.  IIRC, grub claims
> not to be stuck with the limitations that lilo has, whatever that means.
>
> Hugh
>