SATA Dual Boot help ...

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:28:29PM -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.

Hm. Seems unlikely. I have a straight SATA setup (two SATA disks and a
SATA CD-ROM) and have no problems booting the second SATA disk in the 
presence of the first. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Kurt
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