dd'ing a Win2K drive - Should this work?
Dan Coutu
coutu at snowy-owl.com
Tue May 6 16:23:58 EDT 2003
pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>
> Win2K is installed on /dev/sdc, Linux on /dev/sda. There is no
> master boot loader in the sense that Lilo is installed on /dev/sda,
> but only deals with /dev/sda. If Win2K is required, the Bios is
> fiddled with in order to boot directly off that drive.
The bios fiddling is required because Win2K doesn't like to boot from
other than the first drive on a bus. In the case of SCSI I think it
might be willing to boot from the second drive.
You can avoid the bios fiddling by using Grub and telling it two swap
drive ids around. I do it on my laptop. Here is the pertinent snippet
from grub.conf, note the map directives.
title Windows 2000
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
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Dan Coutu
Managing Director
Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC
http://www.snowy-owl.com/
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