Dual boot/CD-RW

[Alex W. Smith]

Hello all:

Thanks for all the help.  I have W2KP and RH 7.2 booting with LILO. 
 Both OSs have their own hard drives and everything works great.  I even 
got the CR-RW to work.  Does anyone have any suggestions for burning 
software.  I tried to install the most recent version of xcdroast but RH 
GnoRPM complained about conflicts with the previoos versions of 
cdrtools.  Has anyone else had this problem with RH 7.2?


Alex

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>Message: 3
>From: Kurt Granroth <kurt@granroth.org>
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: CD-RW
>Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:02:20 -0700
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
>On Saturday 04 January 2003 03:26 pm, Alex W. Smith wrote:
>
>>I am using RH 7.2 and have finally gotten to the point of wanting my IDE
>>CD-RW (Sony CD-RW CRX100E) to function properly.  I have read the HowTo
>>and I am still a little puzzled.  I am aware that I have to trick the
>>system into thinking it is a SCSI, but don't how.  I am running the Sony
>>and a DVD-ROM.  I would be happy just getting the CD-RW up and running.
>>

>
>You are on the right track.  For the following, I am assuming that your 
>CD-RW is on /dev/hdd and that you are running lilo as the boot manager.
>
>1. Open up your /etc/lilo.conf file.  Go to the section describing your 
>linux boot (it will have "image = <blah>" and "root = /dev/blah").  Add the 
>line
>   append = "hdd=ide-scsi"
>
>   You MUST have the quotes around "hdd=ide-scsi".  If your CD-RW is on 
>another drive, use that instead of hdd
>
>2. After saving lilo.conf, run 'lilo' as root
>
>3. Edit /etc/modules.conf.  Look for a line that says "alias 
>scsi_hostadaptor".  If it's there, then change it.  If it's not, then add 
>it.  It needs to look like so:
>
>   alias scsi_hostadaptor ide-scsi
>
>4. Now here is the system specific stuff... you will need to find some place 
>to add a 'modprobe' line.  It varies by distribution.  In general, find a 
>"boot" file in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc3.d or similar.  On SuSE, it's 
>/etc/init.d/boot.local.  Add the following line:
>
>  modprobe ide-scsi
>
>5. Reboot.. and it should work!
>
Install Lilo. Then set it to boot your linux drive first, its in the lilo 
config and is really easy to set up. With mandrake you can do it graphicaly 
in th GUI and I'm sure there is a utility inside RH to accomplish this, just 
make sure you install Linux second or create a boot disk first because 
Window$ likes to own the MBR





>/From: "Alex W. Smith" <alex.smith@asu.edu <mailto:alex.smith@asu.edu>>
/>/Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us <mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
/>/To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us <mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>>
/>/Subject: Best Dual boot set up
/>/Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:59:08 -0700
/>/
/>/Hello all:
/>/
/>/I have win98/RH 7.2 dual boot setup (each OS has it's own hard disk) and I
/>/used a boot disk without LILO.  When I installed RH 7.2 I choose not to
/>/install LILO (an obvious rookie move).  I plan on reformatting the Win disk
/>/and installing W2000P (I still need to use Win for some apps).
/>/
/>/What I want to do with the linux disk is install LILO and have the linux
/>/disk be the first hard disk in the boot sequence (I at least know how to do
/>/this).  It is my understanding that LILO will give me the option of booting
/>/up the other disk.  Is this correct, or does this only work for DOS based
/>/Win98?
/>/
/>/I actually have /sbin/lilo,  but no /etc/lilo.conf  if that helps me get
/>/LILO installed.
/>/
/>/I can't seem to find a HOW TO on this.
/>/
/>/Thanks to everyone for their help.
/>/
/>/Alex
/>/
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