My old setup: BIOS from 1997, 8.4GB HD (6GB Win98, 2GB RH 6.2).
My setup until last night: BIOS from 2000, 40 GB HD (RH 7.0). It took 10 minutes to boot up (I'm not kidding), and wouldn't recognize both drives at the same time. I could also unhook the 40GB drive and hook up the old 8.4GB HD, and it was running "ok" (not great, but not bad). However, Windows gave me a confusing error message over the past week, and I overwrote my MBR. So, LILO's gone from the old 8.4 drive. Buh-bye RH 6.2 installation.
Last night, I unflashed my BIOS back to 1997. Booted into Winders, and the 8.4GB drive was perfect. Shut down, hook up the 40GB drive as the slave to the 8.4's master, and voilá! BIOS recognizes both the IBM 8.4 and the WD 40.
Now, granted, since I didn't format the WD as a FAT drive, Windows can't see it. And that's fine. However, with the 8.4 as master, I can't boot into Linux (since I fux0red my LILO).
My questions:
- How do I get LILO back on the 8.4 so that it re-recognizes my old RH 6.2 installation? I'm not truly concerned about saving everything from this, as the plan is just to copy the files that I've accumulated on there over the last 6 months of running RH over to my 7.0 installation, and then clearing it. But I did have *some* files I wanted...
- Can I get LILO to have 3 options -- Winders, RH 6.2, and RH 7.0 (which would boot off my second HD?) Eventually (as mentioned above), the plan is to trash the RH 6.2 installation, and just give the 2GB it's using back to Winders.
At such time as I get Winders and RH 7.0 playing nice, I'd like to use RH 7.0 as my main system, and then find some program (Win4Lin, VMWare, WINE, etc) to basically "import" my Winders installation so that I can keep it on the 8.4 drive as is, but run it under Linux. What's the best emulation program that can do that for me?
TIA,