A question...

[LoRdMaUL]

I currently have 2 drives in my main box. The primary master is 40 gig and is partitioned as such:

C:\ 10 gig FAT32
D:\ 10 gig FAT32
E:\ 20 gig NTFS

The primary slave is my linux drive and is partitioned like this:

/dev/hdb1 384 meg Swap
/dev/hdb2 3.9+ gig /

When I installed Red Hat 7.1, I chose the custom install and made a boot disk to boot into the system. This is fine but I would love to be able to boot using the Windows 2000 bootloader which resides in the MBR of the first hard drive. I have successfully done this on a single drive system but it always bites me on the *** when I try it on a multi-drive setup. I am also wondering how I go back and install LILO. I found an article on this on http://www.littlewhitedog.com. It said to install LILO on the partition where linux was installed. In my case linux is installed on the second hard drive or /dev/hdb2. So would I install LILO to /dev/hdb or /dev/hdb2 and what command would I issue to do that since I have been booting off a floppy and LILO isn't installed at the moment. I know how to go in and get the linux boot sector and all that and copy it to floppy and all that. I am just a bit fuzzy on where and how to bring LILO into the picture. Thanks for any help in advance.. :)

[WilliamWallace]

why dont you install grub? its a hell of a a lot better than lilo or the win2000 bootloader. check it out on the web.

[LoRdMaUL]

well...I checked out the GRUB webpage and couldn't make heads nor tails out of what it was telling me to do... :(

[element-x]

I think in this case, if you wanted it on the mbr you'd have to install it on /dev/hdb
but don't forget to set the partition as active (via...I would assume fdisk or some other utility of the same nature)

I'm not quite sure if this helps at all, but I would hope so.

[kapwfm]

I'd have to agree that GRUB is a lot better than LILO. I think you can get GRUB in an RPM format...if you're using RedHat, you can install and set up GRUB through RedHat. Just make sure you set everything correctly in GRUB. Shouldn't be hard, but sometimes it's easy to overlook things. :)

[LoRdMaUL]

uhh...is there any docs on setting it up anywhere?

[bdg1983]

Go here (http://support.caldera.com/caldera) and do a search for grub and you should find all you need. They also have 'The Art and Zen on using Grub'.

Hope it helps.