a dual boot - LILO - type of question

[LoRdMaUL]

I am considering adding another hard drive to my current Windows 2000 machine in order to have the ability to dual boot linux too. The current drive in there is a Western Digital 40 gig. The one I am gonna add is a Maxtor 4 gig. I will jumper the 40 as the master and the 4 as the slave. Now I have successfully dual-booted win2k and linux on a single drive using the windows boot loader with no problem...but I am not sure I can do that on 2 drives. I guess what I am asking is can I do it and how would I go about doing it? Seems like I would run into the 1024 cylinder limit but I am not sure. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Gray_Race]

I duel boot Linux and Win98 se on two sepreate HDs, Both Maxtor. Most distros will setup a bootloader for you durring the install process. I would recomend using GRUB or LILO as your bootloader, both of them work realy well. You can also set-up either one from the command line if your in Linux already.

[bdw72]

I also dual boot linux and ME, using LILO, it works fine. However I did see a HowTo out there on dual booting NT and Linux, I would check that first, before trying it.

[cage47]

The things to remember when doing this are, install Windows whatever first on the first hard drive. when you have it installed, then install whatever version of Linux you have. Most will setup the Windows partition as a directory on your linux system. And then also remember to use the default and install the lilo to the master boot record (MBR). My recommendations are Mandrake 7 or 8. I also use debian but it takes more manual tinkering to get it setup.

[LoRdMaUL]

well...i already have windows 2000 server installed on the first 10 gig of the 40 gig drive and I installed Red Hat 7.1 on the 4 gig drive. I know how copy the linux boot sector to a floppy and then copy that file to the root of my windows drive then make the windows 2000 bootloader book that file. I have successfully done that on a single drive machine. What I am wanting to know is how do I get this to boot Linux off the slave(Maxtor 4 gig) drive. I am pretty sure I will install LILO to the slave drive...just not sure how to do that mainly. Seems like I tried this once and it didnt work because Linux resided on the slave drive or something... :confused:

[DMR]

LoRdMaUL,

The 1024 cylinder limit is only an issue with versions of lilo prior to 21-3. Rh 7.x ships with a later version, so that shouldn't be a problem. I haven't multi-booted with Win 2K, but I have two drives, one with Rh 6.2 and one with Mandrake 8, and Lilo has no problem booting both.

[LoRdMaUL]

well I am currently booting linux with the boot disk...which isn't a big deal...just wanted to get an idea of what the brain trust here thought. Thanks for the input.