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Posted: May 01 2005,20:50 QUOTE
It looks to me like lilo is installed on hdb. So when hda boots up, it never sees lilo. If you want lilo to be a boot loader with a menu presented when you power up the computer, lilo must be installed to the MBR of hda.

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Posted: May 01 2005,22:18 QUOTE
Or, you can simply put the second hdd in front of the first in the boot order of your bios.

You will get a lilo menu, and still have th option to boot M$ from hda.

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Posted: May 02 2005,00:41 QUOTE
Hey J.P. thanks. I always wondered why anyone would install lilo to the MBR of a second hard drive. I didn't realize the second hard drive could be the boot drive.

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Or, you can simply put the second hdd in front of the first in the boot order of your bios.

You will get a lilo menu, and still have th option to boot M$ from hda.

-J.P.
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Posted: May 02 2005,02:23 QUOTE
Another way to boot your other drive without messing up the original MBR and bootloader for your original OS is to use a floppy-based bootmanager like the Smart Boot Manager.  It is easy to use and does no harm to your hard drive.  You still need to have a bootloader installed at the beginning of your OS partition, though.

It is also possible to run LILO from a floppy but I have never done it myself.
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Posted: May 02 2005,03:03 QUOTE
It's also possible to make a grub floppy, complete with a menu.

Instructions here.

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