On Tue 10 Aug 04, 10:41 PM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I have a triple boot system with three drives: > > > > * /dev/hda - 80 GB PATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hda5) > > * /dev/hde - 250 GB SATA drive with Win2k (root is /dev/hde1) > > * /dev/hdg - 200 GB SATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hdg6) > > > >lilo can boot my two Debian drives. When I try to boot into Win2k, a > >couple of extended ASCII characters (symbols like "yen" and "cents") get > >printed, but nothing else happens. Win2k doesn't boot. > > > >Using fdisk, I've made sure that the 3 partitions on hde exist, hold the > >files they're supposed to hold, and hde1 (which holds the actual MS OS) > >is marked bootable. > > > >The motherboard is an Abit NF7-S, and I'm using the sata_sil module, and > >other than this, have had no problems with it. SATA on Linux has been > >great. My BIOS is set to boot off of HDD-0. There's an option to boot > >off the SATA drives though. > > > >As a last note, I tried Grub, and it didn't boot Win2k either. When I > >chose Win2k from the Grub menu, I was dumped into the Grub bash-like > >console and didn't go any further (I'm reasonably experienced with lilo, > >but a Grub newbie). > > > >My lilo.conf follows, everything looks fine with it. > > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > > > > > What was the drive configuration when you _installed_ w2k?
When Win2k was installed on hde, the system looked like: hde (SATA): empty hdg (SATA): empty In other words, the PATA drive wasn't in the sytem. I added that after the Win2k install. BTW, when I change the BIOS boot order from: boot off HDD-0 to boot off SATA the sytem boots right into Win2k, and the boot looks healthy. Thanks! Pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
