Dear friends:
Here is a lilo trick taught me by one of our premier gurus.
PROBLEM:
How do you configure lilo to handle a dual-boot Linux/Windows system,
where Windows is NOT on the first drive (hda) but on the second or third
(hdb or hdc). In my case, I have a system with Linux installed on hda
and hdb and Windows installed on hdc. How to configure it without
physically switching the Linux hda and the Windows hdc disks. In fact, I
recently tried to do this, and it failed.
SOLUTION:
Unbelievably simple, that is, if you are a Linux master like Jose M.
Sanchez:
Just open the lilo.conf file in a text editor and change 0 X 81, 81 X 0
to 0 X 82, 82 X 0.
Here is my lilo.conf file:
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
other=/dev/hdc1
label=Win98
table=/dev/hdc
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x82
map-drive = 0x82
to = 0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda7
append=""
read-only
Very ingenious, but it works -- EVERY TIME. It's a way of fooling Linux
into thinking that Windows is on hda instead of really being on hdc.
Hope this helps those of you who have this problem.
Yours,
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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