I personally have linux as the master and win95 as the slave drive. I
installed linux on it's own drive and modified the lilo.conf file to
'swap' the drives in the BIOS using the map-drive parameters. See
below:
other=/dev/hdb1
label=win
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
So my windows is on /dev/hdb, but when I boot using lilo on /dev/hda and
use the above configuration, I don't have to alter the windows boot
record or anything on that drive. This is an easy and safe alternative
to potentially hosing a boot record.
- Scott
Robert Heaven wrote:
>
> I'm about to install a second drive in my existing Windows machine and make
> it a dual boot with Linux.
>
> Question: Which drive should be master and which one slave? If the Linux
> drive is slave (hdb) should LILO be in the master boot record of the Windows
> drive (hda)?
>
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