Question about Dual Boot

[BMK1st]

Hi,

I already have Redhat 7.1 installed. I wanted to add another harddrive and plan to install Win ME on it. I want redhat to be primary. How do you make dual boot for both? Thanks.

[jaygee432]

Windows wants to be primary. Before you install it, make sure you have a boot floppy that will get you back into RH. Then install your favorite bootloader, the most common being lilo. If you do lilo, remember to /sbin/lilo before you reboot.

[scott_R]

I don't use ME, but with other operating systems by M$, they insist on being the only OS. So, you may need to load ME by "hiding" your other drive, then going back and installing lilo by booting your old system with the boot disk you have.

[PimpHolic]

here is what my lilo config file (/etc/lilo.conf) looks like:
lba32
boot=/dev/hda

#this next file depends on distro

#message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 1200
change-rules
reset
vga = normal

# W I N D O W S

other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

# L I N U X

image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda2
label=linux
read-only

here is what yours might look like:
lba32
boot=/dev/hda

#this next file depends on distro

#message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 1200
change-rules
reset
vga = normal

# W I N D O W S

other=/dev/hdb
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

# L I N U X

image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda
label=linux
read-only

note: the part in bold in "your" lilo file is distro dependant
the file /boot/boot_message.txt isn't in that place, as you use red hat and i use slackware
a quick search on your harddrive should reveal where it is

once you edit your lilo config file, make sure you run /sbin/lilo

[slapNUT]

When you say you want RedHat to be primary do you mean Primary Master (hda) and ME to be Primary Slave (hdb). If this is the case then to install Windows you have to first install the drive as the Primary Master, install windows then change the jumpers so it it slave and reinstall the RedHat drive. Then Windows wont boot as a slave drive unless you do this in your lilo.conf

other=/dev/hdb1
label=WinME
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80


Windows 98 will boot this way but I don't know about Me.

It's better just to let Windows be on the hda1 partition and put Linux any partition on hda or hdb. Linux is just a little smarter when it comes to stuff like that.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Look here: http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp

It's says "Dual booting with Windows 2000" but the same steps work with 95/98 and they should work with ME. I've used it to triple boot a Windows 98/2000/Mandrake 8.2 machine.