Thanx girls/guys ill try it out with a second hard drive. Using the NT bootloader seems abit piontless and harder then lilo sorry if there's nothing wrong with using lilo on the win2000 mbr then itll do that and install debian or Mandrake on my second hard drive. Maybe it was the hurd that has a problem witht booting from the second ide controller... wouldnt supprise me as it cant support over 2Gb hard disc partitions, ill try installing that on the second one as well just for fun =). Ill tell you how i get on. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martyn Drake" <linux@drake.org.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:23:16 -0000 To: "NuTTeR -- Not Entered --" <uknutter@graffiti.net> Subject: Re: [Alug] Linux booting from second ide controller?

It's always worth investing in a copy of Partition Magic (http://www.powerquest.com). That way, you can always resize partitions to your hearts content without having to wipe and the re-intall operating systems all day long.

I've not had any problems with booting Windows 2000 or Windows XP with Lilo, and neither have I had a problem in the past of installing Linux on the second hard drive and booting it from the first (as part of Lilo).

Regards,

Martyn

----- Original Message ----- From: "NuTTeR -- Not Entered --" <uknutter@graffiti.net> To: <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:57 PM Subject: [Alug] Linux booting from second ide controller?

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Hi, Ive just got a new computer with win 2000 installed. Its also got alot of specialist software and device drivers(not avalible for linux) so im keeping it(i also like it its the only version of windows i can say that about).

So my problem is that i dont want to re-install windows 2000 on a smaller partition unless i have REALY have to. If there were a version of fips or somthing similare then id maybe resize it so i could fit a smallish "/boot" partision. The boot partition needs to be in the first 8 Gig if i remember correctly or is that just older computers/drives? I do have a spare hd lying around not doing much but i seem to remember theres a problem getting linux to boot fromt he second ide controller, am i wrong?

Also is there anyproblems booting win2000 with lilo? Same as win98 right?

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