SATA Dual Boot help ...

[Leon Goldstein]

Robert Hemus wrote:

>On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 13:28 -0400, Rick Bowers wrote:
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>>At 3/9/2009 11:41 AM, Ben Duncan wrote:
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>>>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 ?
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>>>
>>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
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