SATA Dual Boot help ...

[Rick Bowers]

At 3/9/2009 11:41 AM, Ben Duncan wrote:
>Ok, I have a custom machine I am setting up. It has 2 SATA II hard 
>disks in it.
>
>I have set up LINUX on the first disk and the second disk is a 1TB, that
>is split with WinXp on the first partition and the rest for Linux .
>
>I can boot the WinXp disk fine, if it is the FIRST disk or even "select"
>it as the boot disk in the bios selection, however I cannot get LILO
>to boot it correctly.
>
>When the selection is made using LILO, I get "LI 0101010101 ....."
>
>any suggestions ?

I just read an article recently that said the only way to select the 
2nd SATA drive is to power-off the first drive. The article showed 
how to build a small hardware switch to select between the two (by 
killing power to the other drive). I can't find the article now, but 
I'll keep looking.

I'm not sure if this is helps your situation or not, but it may shed 
some light...

~Rick