Morgan Wajda-Levie on Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:47:39 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] NT and Linux


On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:29:14AM -0500, Matt Heyer wrote:
> All,
> I have two hard drives both are non - SCSI. They are 10 Gig (hdb), and
> 13 Gig (hda). I hoped to have Linux
> on hdb, and NT 4.0 Srv. on hda. When I loaded SUSE 6.1 there were no
> problems.
> Yet when I went to reboot There was no sign of Linux. My guess is that
> when I specified the master boot record it somehow wrote to the boot
> sector of hdb. Is this right?  
> How could I correct this?
> Does the / (root) and/or Swap partition have to be on hda?
> Regards,
> Matt

The root partition is fine on hdb, you simply need to edit your
lilo.conf file.  If you can get back to your Linux system, or do a
reinstall, change the 'boot' option in /etc/lilo.conf to point to
/dev/hda.  Read lilo.conf's manpage for more info on lilo's options.

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