Best dual boot/CD-RW

[Alex W. Smith]

Thanks for all the help.  I now have RH 7.2 (hdb) and W2KP(hda) on two 
disks and booting with lilo.  I also got the CR-RW to function properly. 
 All you folks are a big help.  

Does anyone have a suggestion for CD-RW software?  I tried the latest 
PRM of xcdroast, but GnoRPM complained about conflicts with previous 
versions of cdrtools.  Is there a way around this?

From: Kurt Granroth <kurt@granroth.org> <mailto:kurt@granroth.org>
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us <mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: Re: CD-RW
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:02:20 -0700
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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!
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Edit your lilo.conf or menu.lst entry and add=20 hdd=3Dide-scsi to the 
end of the kernel line. Replace hdd with whatever device your cdrw is. 
If using lilo, you must run=20 lilo

after the change is made.


 >/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>
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/>/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./

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
*Aaron Cordova*


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