Thanks to all that offered suggestions on this one. For future use, I'm
posting below the solution that worked (quite nicely) for me, since it
wasn't posted previously.
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Michael Stenner wrote (Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:39:43 -0400 (EDT) ):
|>Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed
|>hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was
|>hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win
|>as hdb. THis was nothing new for linux, so I started up linux and ran
|>lilo with the following lilo.conf:
|>
|>boot=/dev/hda1
|>delay=50
|>image=/vmlinuz
|> root=/dev/hda1
|> label=linux
|> read-only
|>other=/dev/hdb1
|> label=win
|> table=/dev/hdb
|>
|>linux boots well via lilo now, but windows doesn't boot at all: after
|>typing "win" at LILO:, it just hangs. Any ideas at all would be very
|>much appreciated.
---------------- Response from Alan Su:
windows is generally unhappy about booting from a slave drive, if i'm
correct. i would try to switch it around with the following steps:
- change the master/slave settings on both drives
- boot from the linux rescue disk and at the boot prompt, type
'rescue root=/dev/hdb1'
- change lilo.conf to:
boot=/dev/hda <--- change to /dev/hda
delay=50
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hdb1 <--- change to /dev/hdb1
label=linux
read-only
other=/dev/hda1 <--- change to /dev/hda1
label=win
table=/dev/hda <--- change to /dev/hda
(lilo will install itself onto the master boot record of the windows
drive. the rest of the drive references have been swapped.)
- run lilo, and make sure there are no errors.
- reboot!
the reasoning behind installing lilo on the mbr rather than the boot
partition is that i *believe* that windows needs that boot partition
for something. i'm not entirely sure, but i know that a configuration
like the one above works.
hope that helps...(at least a little).
-alan
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Just a couple more notes:
The installation CD works as a rescue floppy (I forgot that)
Remember to change /etc/fstab. Linux is happy to move (ulike windows)
as long as you *tell* it. :)
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Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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