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Booting Linux from a secondary hard drive

Subject: Booting Linux from a secondary hard drive
From: richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:51:26 -0500 (EST)
In-reply-to: <Pine.3.85.9502271608.A17675-0100000@misty.suffolk.edu> from "cocco@misty.suffolk.edu" at Feb 27, 95 04:26:08 pm

> Hello Linuxers
> 
> I'm considering installing a second Western Digital 210mg hard drive on 
> my Gateway 2000.  If I decide to put Linux on it, can I boot Linux from a 
> floppy disk?  Or will I have to install LILO? 

Yes, you can use LILO from a floppy to accomplish booting up from a root
filesystem on any hard drive.

You can also configure LILO in the master boot record of the first hard
drive so as to boot another O/S residing on that drive, or Linux on the
second drive.

-rich

References:
- Booting Linux from a secondary hard drive
  - From: cocco at misty.suffolk.edu (cocco at misty.suffolk.edu)

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