Dual booting with seperate HDDs
 

I have a few questions regarding dual-booting Debian 3.0 Woody and Windows XP when both operating systems reside on seperate physical drives:

1) Can LILO boot XP if it resides on a seperate disk?

2) How do I do this?

Okay, so maybe just 2 questions, but I've heard LILO has problems booting Windows if it's not on the same physical disk so I haven't tried yet in case I manage to create a system that wont boot at all. I'd rather boot Windows using LILO than Debian using NTLDR or whatever. It just seems more natural.

Thanks for your input.

Is grub Available in woody? and why are you using woody rather than a more recent release. I run Debian unstable, which is really a misnomer, becuase it's pretty stable, and I have been very pleased with it. AFAIK, lilo should be able to d that iwthout an issue:



The Linux stanza should also be already present:

# Linux stanza
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hdc1
label=Linux
# End Linux stanza

Now add the Windows 95 stanza:

# Windows 95 stanza
other=/dev/hda1
table=/dev/hda
#The two lines above could probably be edited for whichever drive has windows on it.
label=Windows95
# End Windows 95 stanza

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multiboot-with-LILO-3.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html