Help!

LILO booting off second IDE disk

 
  

Goto page Previous  1, 2
Post new topic   General Reply to Topic (not reply to a specific post)    Forums Home -> General Discussions (archive 1) RSS
Next:  Accessing Linux drive from Windows XP?  
Author Message
Stanislaw Flatto
External


Since: Mar 26, 2004
Posts: 296



PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2006 11:35 pm    Post subject: Re: LILO booting off second IDE disk [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Archived from groups: comp>os>linux>misc, others (more info?)

Brad wrote:


> But I found this interesting too; I'm not very up-to-date with the
> Microsoft operating systems, and didn't know that Win98 will only run
> on the 'first' disk of a system, or that Win2K and XP are more clever.

Nope. LILO (and other bootloaders) can cheat Win98 to believe it IS on
primary drive and behave like 'normal' on any drive, just the partition
HAS to be primary.
NT related OS's retained their Unix trait of being able to be called
from logical partitions in extended.

> Thanks for the help,
>
>
> Brad

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.
Back to top
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   General Reply to Topic (not reply to a specific post)    Forums Home -> General Discussions (archive 1) All times are: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (change)
Goto page Previous  1, 2
Page 2 of 2

 
You can post new topics in this forum
You can reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum