On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Gil Andre wrote: > ... > This is a limitation of DOS/Windows systems: they can only be > booted from the first hard disk of your machine (/dev/hda_). But you will observe that she used some lilo trickery to make MS-DOS think it was booting from the first drive, by logically swapping the drives. I have used this scheme successfully for years, on my own machine (till the drive went flaky -- haven't even missed it -- got to where I hated the frustrations that toy OS put me through, and almost never booted it anyway). > These operating systems simply assume they are the first, only > and/or most important operating systems on your hard disk and > will simply refuse to boot from any other drive. Annoying, isn't it. But she will be able to fool the stupid M$ stuff, when she gets the rest of her config right. > ... > I think the only way out of your problem would be to install > move the Linux hard disk in another position, since Linux > ... But, you see, she already knows about another way out. <rest snipped> -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html