Dual boot win98 and linux on two hard drives
My family have windows 98 on their primary master and I want to add a hard drive with linux on it, but not sure how the boot loaders will work.
I'm assuming I should: Add the hard drive as primary slave (only one left), and boot linux on it. Write lilo to the master boot record to boot: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 ...etc. image=/boot/vmlinuz ...etc. other=/dev/hda1 label=win ...and it will work, but I don't know. I have looked, but I don't fully understand the "table" option. We can't back up, so it's important I know it will work or I am off to the guillotine. I believe lilo backs up the loader it replaces to a /boot/*.b file, so this may not be a big risk, I just copy it back if something goes wrong. I've got rescue disks for both, so I shouldn't have too much of a panic if the boot loaders don't work. I've done my research, so if I'm right, please confirm that I haven't missed something! |
As far I see, it should work that way. :)
I have almost the same setup on my own computer. |
Thanks, thats all I needed. I'll be careful though, as things happen.
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