On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:41:13 +1000, Richard Watson wrote:

> I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev/hdb1. It seemed to work (loaded my
> images OK) but gave a message saying the drive was not a master. When I
> rebooted it went straight into XP.
> 
> I suppose I could use partition magic to create /boot on /dev/hda1 ___ 

Does your BIOS have an option to choose the boot device at boot time?
Many BIOSes now present a menu if you press a key as it boots, usually
Esc or one of the F keys. Otherwise, you'll either have t go into the
BIOS configuration to change the boot device or install GRUB to hda.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Death is proven to be 99.9% fatal to all laboratory rats.

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