Dual-booting with two separate hard drives
 

Most things I read for dual-booting is for dual-booting with only 1 hard drive. In my case I'm going to be installing on a second physical hard drive. How do I setup LILO to do this?

its really very easy the only difference really should be the label of the hdd in lilo.conf make sure you install to the mbr of the first


driveprompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
ignore-table
image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.20
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe

I don't know what distro you are using but with SuSE or Mandrake you just tell it to install LILO in the MBR and it will automatically install it on the first hard drive.

Re: Dual-booting with two separate hard drives
 

Make sure there's a `stanza' in your lilo.conf that contains the line:

root=/dev/hdb (or whatever the second drive is called)

and the appropriate line for specifying the name of the kernel file.

I use this on a couple of system. Works like a charm. You can boot off the third drive if you like as well, etc. (I boot Linux from /dev/sdc, for example.)