SATA Dual Boot help ...

[Robert Hemus]

On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 13:28 -0400, Rick Bowers wrote:
> 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 
> 
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I hate like heel to start a flame war, but I've been using grub since my
first experience (I think) with Caldera 1.3 and don't seem to have any
troubles with it.  Why or how come some still use LILO.  What are the
advantages/disadvantages?

Thanks,
Bob