On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides >> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup >> installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from >> hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have >> it boot linux from hdc1? >> >lilo.conf: change the boot=/dev/hdc into boot=/dev/hda >image=/dev/hdc1 should be already there and it is fine. >and an option other=/dev/hda1 is needed for booting the other os.
I tried that, but LILO hangs with LI-. I did run lilo to update the MBR - several times. In lilo.conf I have: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdc1 ... image=/vmlinuz ... other=/dev/hda1 ... -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>