Problem Adding Another Hard Drive

Problem Adding Another Hard Drive

Post by mike » Sat, 27 Feb 1999 04:00:00



Hi, I have Red Hat Linux 5.1 installed on an old hard drive that
boots from Lilo installed on its MBR. I want to install a large
hard drive with Windows95 on the system. I want the large drive
to be the primary master and the linux drive to be the primary
slave.
 How do I get Lilo to install the linux boot software on the
new hard drive's MBR so that I can dual boot from the new hard
drive on the primary master ide to be , optionally able to boot
into the existing linux drive as the primary slave.
                        Thanks
                                Mike
 
 
 

Problem Adding Another Hard Drive

Post by Burkard B. Kreidl » Wed, 03 Mar 1999 04:00:00


Quote:>Hi, I have Red Hat Linux 5.1 installed on an old hard drive that
>boots from Lilo installed on its MBR. I want to install a large
>hard drive with Windows95 on the system. I want the large drive

Don't do it :-)

Quote:>to be the primary master and the linux drive to be the primary
>slave.
> How do I get Lilo to install the linux boot software on the
>new hard drive's MBR so that I can dual boot from the new hard
>drive on the primary master ide to be , optionally able to boot
>into the existing linux drive as the primary slave.

I think you'd have to install Windoze first and then lilo because
windoze overwrites your MBR. But be sure you've got a linux bootdisk
or install loadlin first on your windoze drive before you install any
noperating system.