Second hard drive

[macondo]

I've been playing with the idea of installing a second hd. Will both hard drives show automatically on the boot screen so i can choose which one to boot?

[Shador]

No. Bootloaders are not about hard drives.

[macondo]

Maybe i didn't formulate the question correctly:
Say i install another OS or another Salix 1337 version on the second hd, i won't be able to choose which OS i want to launch?

[JRD]

You will be possible to have both. But you need to specify it.
Do you actually use lilo or grub2 ?

[macondo]

I use the default Lilo with Salix.
I want to install the Ratpoison Salix version on the second hd, during the installation, do i install Lilo again on the second hd? Thanks...

[JRD]

No you don't.
Then boot to your actual Salix edition. Note the root partition where your ratpoison edition is installed (/dev/sdb1 for exemple), then edit /etc/lilo.conf, duplicate the entry about your current Salix entry and modify the root parameter accordingly. In my example, setting it to /dev/sdb1.
Then type :

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lilo -v

When you reboot, you will have the choice to boot to your current installation, or to your new ratpoison edition.

[macondo]

Thanks buddy!

[laprjns]

You can also use Lilo Setup

[macondo]

It's working perfectly! Thanks to both of you, i must say the lilo setup was a bit confusing to me, so i did it manually
I named it Linuxrat, pointed it to sdb1, lilo -v, and away we went. I'm really happy! Thanks guys

This time i used cfdisk to partition (/,/home) use swap from the original install, chose JFS for the files system, it seems smoother.