Not so sure about your conclusions. I have 2 @ 13.5GB drives and each
has a 4GB windows (vfat) partition at the beginning of the drive. The
next partition is /boot - 16MB, swap - 256MB, and / - the rest of the
drive. Lilo is installed on the mbr of drive hda and to boot the linux
partition from drive hdb i use the following lilo.conf
other=/dev/hdb5
label=debian
For drive this linux partition, I have lilo installed at the beginning
of /dev/hdb5 which is the /boot partition
I see the lilo prompt twice when I want to boot to the second drive but
that is normal for any linux boot from a drive other than the first
drive.
Sounds like you need to spend a little more time learning about lilo.
Let me know if I can answer more questions, but read the lilo man pages
first and look in /usr/doc/lilo.... for more info. The linux HOWTO's
include a plethora of stuff on lilo, nt, ntloader, ....
Tom
Dev Null wrote:
>
> I have installed Mandrake-Linux to my computer. The drives are laid out like
> this:
>
> /dev/hda1 - NTFS - NT boot
> /dev/hda2 - NTFS
>
> /dev/hdb1 - NTFS (3 Gig)
> /dev/hdb2 - Linux (2.8 Gig)
> /dev/hdb5 - Linux swap (200 K)
>
> As you would guess Lilo doesn't boot into Linux in this situation because the
> Linux is too far from the beginning of /dev/hdb.
>
> When I was installing Linux I remember seeing a 7Meg section at the beginning of
> /dev/hdb that is not used. I'm assuming it is there to put a small kernel
> loader in, which is exactly what I want to do.
>
> Is it possible to format this 7M section and put the kernel on it without
> re-installing? If so, how?
>
> If it is not possible, how do I need to set it up upon re-install? I'm thinking
> I need to make this 7M partition the mount point "/" and the partition with
> linux "/boot", or is it the other way around?
>
> Thanks for all of your help.
>
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