Hi Everybody,
I finally found out that there was some inconsistancy in my partition
table its. It was reported while I was installing RH 8.0.
I am very sorry for the confusion.
But the question remains, why do the docs say lilo cant boot from 2nd hard
disk. Can somebody please read the file
<docs dir>/lilo-**/user.dvi
and explain it to me.
Thanks
Sourangshu
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Manas Laha wrote:
> Oh, well. Several people have since written confirming that they are
> using LILO to boot an OS from hdb/hdc. I don't know what documentation
> about LILO you consulted, but this HOWTO from the Linux Documentation
> Project,
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html#toc8, might be useful to you.
> It gives several examples of various LILO based installation schemes,
> including from other than hda.
>
> Talking of bootmagic, I have no idea how well _that_ coexists and
> cooperates with LILO. As a boot manager, LILO should be good enough on
> its own.
>
> - Manas Laha
>
> Sourangshu Bhattacharya wrote:
> >
> > Dear Mr. Laha,
> >
> > I read this fact in the documantation and it is also true in my case. I am
> > using bootmagic from powerquest (same guy who made partition magic). I
> > installed lilo on the first sector of the / partition. then tried booting
> > with bootmagic. It load 'L' and then repeats 010101...
> >
> > I have tried the other option (installing lilo on MBR) several times and
> > failed. This fact can be found in the lilo docs also. just check
> > /usr/local/docs/lilo-21/user.dvi for RH 6.2.
> >
> > Its written in the first few pages.
> >
> > Looking forward to ur suggestions.
> >
> > Sourangshu
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Manas Laha wrote:
> >
> > > LILO _does_ boot Linux from /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. I use this kind of
> > > booting all the time. So far I've not tried to see how well LILO boots
> > > Windows from hdb or hdc, but Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay can tell us if his
> > > setup is working (he has Linux on hda and Win98 on hdc).
> > >
> > > I have LILO on the MBR of hda.
> > >
> > > - Manas Laha
>
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Sourangshu Bhattacharya
M.Tech. Computer Science,
Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata.
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