Re: [TCLUG:20355] have disk with win95

[Andy Zbikowski <andyzb@ltiflex.com>]

Larry Greenwald wrote:
> 
> Windows will not boot from anything other than the master drive on the
> primary controller (hda).  

Sure it will, it just has to think It's booting from the primiary
master. The lilo.conf would look something like this...
(Let's say that linux is on the primiary master, hda. Windows is on the
primiary slave, hdb. Zip and cd-rom are on the secondary controller. 

---

/dev/hda=0x80
/dev/hdb=0x81
#/dev/hdc=0x82
#/dev/hdd=0x83
boot=/dev/hda1
root=/dev/hda1
install=/boot/boot.b
delay=20
map=/boot/map
vga=normal

image=vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only

other = /dev/hdb
  label = win
  table = /dev/hdb
  map-drive = 0x80
    to = 0x81
  map-drive = 0x81
    to = 0x80

---

This method has it's ups and downs. On the upside, if you reinstall
windows, it won't overwrite your mbr, most likely making your system
unbootable until you stick in a boot/rescue disk. 

On the downside, installing windows from a cd-rom or bootdisk is
dificult because the drives don't get remapped when you boot from
anything other than the hard drive. I keep the win98 cabs on my windows
partition so I don't have to bother with it. Have fun. 



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