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Old 02-05-2003, 10:22 PM   #1
qnguyendang
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Two boot loaders in two hard disks


I have two hard disks. Each one has such a limited size that I could only install either Windows or Text based Linux. I did intall 2 different OSs into 2 disks. And here is my question:

- How can I use one boot loader for two OSs in 2 different disks.

I mean that how I should do to have the seletion list (LINUX or DOS) to choose as if I have a sufficient disk size (the solution is to set bootloader supporting both Linux and Dos in one disks).

Thanks for your help.
 
Old 02-06-2003, 08:01 PM   #2
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Actually, what a difficult task to use two different boot types in two different disk. However, drive your attention to the idea below which could answer your question. (If anyone has a right question, please post)

It is worth noting that Window is not a boot type. It uses DOS to boot.
In a disk(called [1]), have the partition divided into 2 part, one for Linux (swap and ext), the rest for dos (not for win). The size required for DOS is not too large (about 3M is abundant, inculed command.com, config.sys.....). In the other disk you install Window as normal.

When boot, your boot loader (LILO or GRUB) in [1] let you choose either DOS or LINUX. If you choose DOS, type you hard disk drive follow the promt to direct it to your window installed disk. Then, start window here. If you choose LINUX, nothing differs to the normal case.
 
  


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