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onestep · 11-27-2002, 03:45 AM

Hi all,
I've got 2K & XP on drives of their own (sharing an ide cable) & am able to dual-boot fine; but I want to get a Linux o/s on the same box. I have loaded linux esmith onto another drive but when that drive is fitted the box wont load any o/s. I am trying to put my msi dvdrom & the linux drive on the 2nd mobo ide cable. How do I connect & jumper these drives? I need a bootable cd drive - my msi burner is connected via an ide controller card and, so, is not bootable.

11-27-2002, 03:45 AM	#1
onestep Member (3 bit) Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 6	multibooting win & linux Hi all, I've got 2K & XP on drives of their own (sharing an ide cable) & am able to dual-boot fine; but I want to get a Linux o/s on the same box. I have loaded linux esmith onto another drive but when that drive is fitted the box wont load any o/s. I am trying to put my msi dvdrom & the linux drive on the 2nd mobo ide cable. How do I connect & jumper these drives? I need a bootable cd drive - my msi burner is connected via an ide controller card and, so, is not bootable.