Re: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:40:25 -0500 (CDT), Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:


>For #2, I take it to basically mean that /boot must be on a primary
>drive.  (I have no idea what would happen if somebody had one hard
>drive and nothing else on the primary chain, and a second hard drive
>on the secondary.)

Older versions of LILO could only access one IDE controller, so the
boot has to be on IDE 0, master or slave.  I have it to understand
that with newer versions of LILO and/or newer BIOSes this is no longer 
the case, but don't quote me on that.

Kelly


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