Booting Linux from a secondary hard drive

[Rich Braun]

> 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