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by cd » Fri, 20 Sep 2002 04:51:38

Hello,

I've got 2 drives; windows is on one, and I want redhat 7.3 on the other.
The windows drive is my primary master, and the other one is secondary
master.

I would like to always boot to windows, no questions asked, unless one of
the following is done: (a) I booted up with the linux boot disk, or (b) I
changed the boot order in the BIOS before boot.

I've installed linux twice on the 2nd drive, the first time with GRUB (on
the 2nd drive) and the second time without. Both times I created a boot
disk. In neither case could I successfully boot. The boot disk just crapped
out on me, and when booting from the linux drive, the word "GRUB" just sits
on the screen and nothing hsppens, and the computer accepts no input from
me.

Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get a running linux on my 2nd
hard drive?

thanks a bunch,

CDJ

by **Peter B. Steige** » Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:07:29

on 18 Sep 2002, cdj sez:

Quote:> I would like to always boot to windows, no questions asked, unless one
> of the following is done: (a) I booted up with the linux boot disk, or
> (b) I changed the boot order in the BIOS before boot.

{snip for brevity}

Quote:> Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get a running linux on my
> 2nd hard drive?

I have never tried GRUB; LILO works great for me. You can tell Lilo (in
/etc/lilo.conf) what the default boot partition is, and how long to wait
before loading the default. But all that is on one drive - maybe it has
trouble booting from a second drive?

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Cheyenne, WY

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by **Marv** » Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:30:19

> Hello,

> I've got 2 drives; windows is on one, and I want redhat 7.3 on the other.
> The windows drive is my primary master, and the other one is secondary
> master.

> I would like to always boot to windows, no questions asked, unless one of
> the following is done: (a) I booted up with the linux boot disk, or (b) I
> changed the boot order in the BIOS before boot.

> I've installed linux twice on the 2nd drive, the first time with GRUB (on
> the 2nd drive) and the second time without. Both times I created a boot
> disk. In neither case could I successfully boot. The boot disk just crapped
> out on me, and when booting from the linux drive, the word "GRUB" just sits
> on the screen and nothing hsppens, and the computer accepts no input from
> me.

> Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get a running linux on my 2nd
> hard drive?

> thanks a bunch,

> CDJ

If I recall correctly, there are keystroke combinations that you can use while
in the Grub screen after highlighting the OS that will allow you to change
order, delete, etc. It's just a little editing feature for Grub. You can
read more about it in the Red Hat manuals or in the man page for Grub.

Enjoy,

Marv Green

by **Mr. Bri** » Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:16:17

Having multiple operating systems on the same machine is a great
environment for development work, however, I see many posts about how
to partition disks or make the system boot from different disks. I
have a great solution, especially if you have multiple disks. Spend
the $40 and buy a removable disk caddy. That way you can have as many
disks as you want for Linux, Windows 98, Windows XP, etc. Swapping
the disk caddy takes just a few seconds, and the system will always
boot to the drive you have inserted.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Brian

> Hello,

> I've got 2 drives; windows is on one, and I want redhat 7.3 on the other.
> The windows drive is my primary master, and the other one is secondary
> master.

> I would like to always boot to windows, no questions asked, unless one of
> the following is done: (a) I booted up with the linux boot disk, or (b) I
> changed the boot order in the BIOS before boot.

> I've installed linux twice on the 2nd drive, the first time with GRUB (on
> the 2nd drive) and the second time without. Both times I created a boot
> disk. In neither case could I successfully boot. The boot disk just crapped
> out on me, and when booting from the linux drive, the word "GRUB" just sits
> on the screen and nothing hsppens, and the computer accepts no input from
> me.

> Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get a running linux on my 2nd
> hard drive?

> thanks a bunch,

> CDJ

by **Micha** » Sat, 05 Oct 2002 02:12:41

Hi CDJ,

Can you post the contents of the /etc/lilo.conf, so that i can figure
out what is wrong with my set up.

I have a similar configuration.

Thanks,
-Michael

> Having multiple operating systems on the same machine is a great
> environment for development work, however, I see many posts about how
> to partition disks or make the system boot from different disks. I
> have a great solution, especially if you have multiple disks. Spend
> the $40 and buy a removable disk caddy. That way you can have as many
> disks as you want for Linux, Windows 98, Windows XP, etc. Swapping
> the disk caddy takes just a few seconds, and the system will always
> boot to the drive you have inserted.

> Just my 2 cents worth.

> Brian

> > Hello,

> > I've got 2 drives; windows is on one, and I want redhat 7.3 on the other.
> > The windows drive is my primary master, and the other one is secondary
> > master.

> > I would like to always boot to windows, no questions asked, unless one of
> > the following is done: (a) I booted up with the linux boot disk, or (b) I
> > changed the boot order in the BIOS before boot.

> > I've installed linux twice on the 2nd drive, the first time with GRUB (on
> > the 2nd drive) and the second time without. Both times I created a boot
> > disk. In neither case could I successfully boot. The boot disk just crapped
> > out on me, and when booting from the linux drive, the word "GRUB" just sits
> > on the screen and nothing hsppens, and the computer accepts no input from
> > me.

> > Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get a running linux on my 2nd
> > hard drive?

> > thanks a bunch,

> > CDJ

by cd » Sun, 06 Oct 2002 05:03:34

> Hi CDJ,

> Can you post the contents of the /etc/lilo.conf, so that i can figure
> out what is wrong with my set up.

> I have a similar configuration.

unfortunately I can't do this, simply because linux won't boot (never
gets past the GRUB displayed on the screen).

I would be perfectly happy with a clear answer to the following
question:

I have 2 physical, seperate harddrives. one has windows on it, and the
compputer boots to this drive. I would like linux on the other drive,
and have an easy way to control which drive/os is loaded upon powerup.
what's the easiest/best way to achieve this?

Thanks for your reply, and any further advice you can give,

cdj

by **Vegard Hansse** » Sun, 06 Oct 2002 09:20:49

> unfortunately I can't do this, simply because linux won't boot (never
> gets past the GRUB displayed on the screen).

Probably because the BIOS don't support booting from it. Had the same
problem here. A 120Gb disk which was master (and WinXP) and a 30Gb disk
(slave) which I wanted for linux. The easiest solution for me was to set
the 30Gb as master and the 120Gb as slave, partition the 30Gb as:

100Mb - /boot
10Gb - WinXP
20Gb - Linux

And then use the 120Gb as storage. This works fine with GRUB.

Quote:> I have 2 physical, seperate harddrives. one has windows on it, and the
> compputer boots to this drive. I would like linux on the other drive,
> and have an easy way to control which drive/os is loaded upon powerup.
> what's the easiest/best way to achieve this?

You could get a boot utility to hide the disk you don't want to use. Then
install GRUB on the linux disk.

by **Roger Heckma** » Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:36:02

Trios makes some nifty hardware that allows you to install multiple hard
drives, and select the one you want to boot from with a button before boot
up. Then all drives are master, but only one of them is selected as the
usable drive for the particular session.
Roger

> Hi CDJ,

> Can you post the contents of the /etc/lilo.conf, so that i can figure
> out what is wrong with my set up.

> I have a similar configuration.

> Thanks,
> -Michael

> > Having multiple operating systems on the same machine is a great
> > environment for development work, however, I see many posts about how
> > to partition disks or make the system boot from different disks. I
> > have a great solution, especially if you have multiple disks. Spend
> > the $40 and buy a removable disk caddy. That way you can have as many
> > disks as you want for Linux, Windows 98, Windows XP, etc. Swapping
> > the disk caddy takes just a few seconds, and the system will always
> > boot to the drive you have inserted.

> > Just my 2 cents worth.

> > Brian

Quote:> > > Hello,

> > > I've got 2 drives; windows is on one, and I want redhat 7.3 on the
other.
> > > The windows drive is my primary master, and the other one is secondary
> > > master.

> > > I would like to always boot to windows, no questions asked, unless one
of
> > > the following is done: (a) I booted up with the linux boot disk, or
(b) I
> > > changed the boot order in the BIOS before boot.

> > > I've installed linux twice on the 2nd drive, the first time with GRUB
(on
> > > the 2nd drive) and the second time without. Both times I created a
boot
> > > disk. In neither case could I successfully boot. The boot disk just
crapped
> > > out on me, and when booting from the linux drive, the word "GRUB" just
sits
> > > on the screen and nothing hsppens, and the computer accepts no input
from
> > > me.

> > > Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get a running linux on my
2nd
> > > hard drive?

> > > thanks a bunch,

> > > CDJ

by Bu » Sun, 20 Oct 2002 04:23:09

I have 2 physical drives (40 GB (master) - W2K, 8GB (slave) - RH73). I
chose boot from diskette during installation. Without boot disk in
floppy drive, W2K is always the primary OS on power up. It never
failed to boot to RH73 partition either with boot disk in the floppy
drive. Not sure this helps you or not.

Quote:
> unfortunately I can't do this, simply because linux won't boot (never
> gets past the GRUB displayed on the screen).

> I would be perfectly happy with a clear answer to the following
> question:

> I have 2 physical, seperate harddrives. one has windows on it, and the
> compputer boots to this drive. I would like linux on the other drive,
> and have an easy way to control which drive/os is loaded upon powerup.
> what's the easiest/best way to achieve this?

> Thanks for your reply, and any further advice you can give,

> cdj

by **Bob** » Tue, 22 Oct 2002 06:13:22

I have RedHat 7.3 installed on second hard drive with Windows 2000 Pro on
the first hard drive. grub is installed on the first hard drive. grub offers
to boot either win2k or linux. Both OS's boot depending on keyboard choice.
Linux is the default OS.

Quote:> I have 2 physical drives (40 GB (master) - W2K, 8GB (slave) - RH73). I
> chose boot from diskette during installation. Without boot disk in
> floppy drive, W2K is always the primary OS on power up. It never
> failed to boot to RH73 partition either with boot disk in the floppy
> drive. Not sure this helps you or not.

> > unfortunately I can't do this, simply because linux won't boot (never
> > gets past the GRUB displayed on the screen).

> > I would be perfectly happy with a clear answer to the following
> > question:

> > I have 2 physical, seperate harddrives. one has windows on it, and the
> > compputer boots to this drive. I would like linux on the other drive,
> > and have an easy way to control which drive/os is loaded upon powerup.
> > what's the easiest/best way to achieve this?

> > Thanks for your reply, and any further advice you can give,

> > cdj

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