I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but might this problem be due to how your drives are partitioned as in primary vs extended partitions? Could it be that if your OS, doesn't matter which is actually in an extended partition, that LILO need to mount the primary partition containing it to boot? I'm not a LILO guru, so I could be totally wrong. I do know that I've mounted extended partitions (usually when installing Linux in a dual boot environment) and have come up with some pretty strange mappings. One other thought. This isn't a large harddrive that has had a bootmanager installed to override the bios settings on the computer is it? I know that a lot of drives over 32GB have special boot loaders (regardless of the OS) to handle booting. Linux doesn't actually need it (Windows does, sometimes), but does LILO respect it if it is there?
A lot of questions, and no real answers, Joeb -------Original Message------- From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03/11/03 07:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines > > On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 1:18 pm, g wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: I'm trying to get to grips with both this one and the one that follows it. Bear with me, it's brain-spinning <g> > > you may not have an hda and hdb, but, when 'what ever' wrote your > 'lilo.conf', it thought you need to have them. > > so, to give them to you, a 1st re mapping is to issue, > disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 > disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82 > which ;logically' changes hde to hda, and hdf to hdb, so that bios will > think you have an hda and hdb... > That sounds reasonable. BUT, windows is on hde/hda and Mdk9.0 is on hdf/hdb. So why would it want to make further mappings? Isn't that what we are trying to achieve? My brain aches, but I'm sticking with it <g> I appreciate your time. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 >
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