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Dual boot linux on a second hard drive?

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spudicus

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Ive recently installed Redhat linux on a second hard drive (xp being on the first) and am unable to dual boot with lilo. Apparently it doesn't like being anywhere but on the primary master. I have thought of using partition magic to add the /boot directory to the first drive but was hoping there might be an alternative e.g. another boot manager. Am I able to boot without lilo at all (is grub an altenative)?
Any help is much appreciated.
 
Although I haven't mucked with RedHat for a while (real men use Mandrake? Hehe.), you *should* be able to install LILO on the same partition as you installed ReadHat (second HD).

This will leaveyour WinXP boot manager intact. Now, you will have to go back and manually add Linux to the WinXP boot manager. I higly recommend BootPart (www.winimage.com -> BootPart) for this. Quick and easy.

-SUO
 
I believe grub will work fine.

But if not, there's always the option to install lilo on the floppy (do NOT use the regular boot floppy.. it's slow. Actually install lilo to /dev/fd0).
 
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