[syslinux] win98 on a second hard drive

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Thu May 15 07:42:23 PDT 2008


On Wed, 14 May 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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.

Would it be hard to also add the possibility to have more than one disk 
image in MEMDISK. Say that I want to have a floppy to boot from and a 
second harddisk image available after that.

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