> > Hello, > > I have a system with two IDE hard drives. The primary master is a > recent install of Debian (just the install disks so far) and the primary > slave is Windows 98. I'd like to make it dual-boot. Thanks to recent > posts regarding this issue by Alvin Oga, I've done my best to write a > lilo.conf for this (below). However, when I boot and type "Win98" at > the boot prompt, all it says is "Loading Win98," and then stalls. When > I try commenting out the line "table=/dev/hdb1," it says "Error Loading > OS." The Linux partition seems to be okay (although I'm still not sure > what I'm going to do about the 8GB limit). FWIW, the Win98 drive does > boot, but only if I set the BIOS to boot directly from that disk. > > Thanks for any help, and sorry if I'm missing something obvious. I've > tried my best with the documentation.
Problem is this: Windows has to be on primary master. It wont boot off anything else. So you need to swap those two partitions. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org <--Apache server on my machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
