[KLUG Members] RE: Re: Dual boot problem on home computer (Adam Tauno Williams)

[Robert V. Kanaley]

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>Yep, that legacy OS *MUST* be on the primary drive of the first
>channel.  Period.  Thats the way it works.  I'm mildly
>impressed that it booted at all.

Interesting comment about the legacy OS, but I am looking for help on how to
set my home computer up so that I can get Red Hat 9 to boot from the master
drive on the second IDE channel without screwing up the legacy OS boot on
the master drive on the first IDE channel.

I used Partition Magic to push the legacy OS partition up the drive, to made
room for a /boot partition or two below the magic 1024 cylinders. The legacy
OS still boots, but, I am not sure how to proceed from here.

If I boot into rescue mode from Red Hat 9 CD #1, I think I will be able to
put GRUB in the MBR and create a /boot partition for Red Hat 9. If that
works, then I think I can configure GRUB to load the legacy OS on the first
IDE channel and Red Hat on the secondary IDE channel. Hopefully it won't
take the legacy OS 14 hours to boot configured this way. I just haven't done
this before and I don't want to trash the legacy OS and face the wrath of an
angry wife who wants to do camera things, NOW.

Perhaps it would be easier and safer to figure out how to make a kernel
bzImage and create a boot floppy disk?

Anyone have any experience making a boot floppy to load Linux from a hard
drive on a secondary IDE channel or setting up a GRUB config on a primary
IDE channel to boot a kernel on a secondary IDE channel?

TIA

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com