[syslinux] win98 on a second hard drive

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed May 14 13:27:32 PDT 2008


Gilles Espinasse wrote:
>>   Currently I have Linux and Win98 on the primary hard drive, and when I
> attempt to use the floppy to start Win98 on the second hard drive, I simply
> start Win98 on the first drive. I have tried many different approaches, all
> to no avail, and I would really appreciate some help.

> You could at least hide the first disk in bios, even in old bios.
> You have to configure bios so first disk is not recognised.
> 
> You may on certain bios swap the disk order (pretend the second disk is the
> first) to make windows happy.

Note: doing such a swapping shim is reasonably easy (it's similar to 
MEMDISK); I just never bothered since this is the first time I've gotten 
the request.

	-hpa




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