On Wed, 11 May 2005 03:36:08 -0700, Masked Slacker <masked.slacker@gmail.com> wrote:

>Install LILO to the MBR of the drive with windows. Put both Slackware
>and Windows in the prompt to choose from. That's what i did.

There are a couple ways to do this reliably, I do it the other way

>Note: A little oddity. After doing this boot the computer with just
>the Lilo/windows drive in. When lilo comes up, turn computer off,
>reattach other drive, reboot. On my system this seems to make the
>computer remember which MBR to read off of first. Do this after
>everything is installed of course.

This is sloppy, weird, probably non-repeatable, and struck me as
plain strange way to go about installs, supposed to be a simple
deterministic procedure, not a jigsaw puzzle -- although it gets
to feel like that at times.

But however, let slackware get boot control, it is a damn sight
easier than putting a linux boot into windoes menu (possible but
painful), before I weaned myself from DOS tools and trusted
GNU/Linux that extra bit -- back when WinNT4-sp6a was the go

mostly

unix-like systems can take years to grow into, if you're coming
from the 'dark-side'.

--Grant.