Dual Hard Drives

[Saptech]

I have an AMD Duron 700mhz system which I've already installed Mandrake 8.0 on a 10gb HD. Next I took out the HD with MDK on it and installed a new 10gb HD and put Win2000 & WinMe on it.

Now what I would like to do is add the HD with MDK on it as the secondary(slave) drive.

What I need to know is how do I go about making sure Mandrake will be seen once the system is booted!

I have a boot floppy disk for MDK, and would the boot floppy still boot linux since it will be on the secondary controller?

Thanks in advance!

[bdg1983]

Boot from the floppy and at the prompt, type 'boot root=/dev/hdb#' Where # is the correct partition number.

Once booted, edit /etc/lilo.conf on Mandrake and make the necessary changes to reflect the drive now being hdb.

What will you use to boot, NT Bootloader or Lilo? If Lilo, then you will have to also change lilo.conf so it installs in the mbr of hda.

[Saptech]

Thanks for the reply, MDWatts. I'm currently at work so I would have to try this when I get home.

Now when I put the boot floppy in, it will come to the boot prompt were I type the command you mention to direct it to hdb1?

I forgot to mention that the Win2K is using NTFS system and WinMe is on FAT32.

I would like to be able to triple boot from hard drive, so I would edit lilo.conf to use Lilo to boot? Would I put Lilo on MDK disk or the WinMe MBR?

Thnx again.

[Helical Cynic]

Check the HOW-TOs for getting Windows NT to boot with Linux. Basically, you need LILO/GRUB installed to the root of the linux drive, then you'll use the NT Bootloader to pick what to boot at startup.

[Saptech]

I got it all working...thnx to all who helped.