> > 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.
Not if you just point lilo.conf to a kernel image. LILO has no problem
loading kernel images from other drives.
>
> I have now seen several posts like this saying that it is nornal for two LILO prompts
> if you are booting Linux off a second drive, and am very puzzled, as I have always
> booted Linux off my second drive and have never seen two LILO prompts.
>
> My home system has Windows 95 on hda and a vfat partion as hdb1, as well as Linux on
> hdb. I have installed Redhat 5.2, 6, 6.1; Mandrake 6, 7; as well as Caldera and Suse
> distributions on this machine. None have given me 2 LILO prompts.
That's because your lilo.conf was configured to load a kernel image from
your ext2 filesystem, rather than a second boot sector- which in the case
above, apparently contains another LILO.
-Matt Stegman
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