On 3 June 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get lilo to boot a Win95 disk which uses FAT32, but it
> freezes.
>
> The configuration is as follows:
>
> 2 physically different drives (Quantum Fireball and WD Caviar)
> /dev/hda contains Linux and lilo. Primary master (WD caviar disk)
> /dev/hdb contains Win95 FAT32 version. Set up as Primary Slave.
>
> Both operating systems work OK when run as primary master drive.
>
> /etc/lilo.config is as follows:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> append="bmouse=3"
> image=/boot/kernel_99
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda3
> read-only
> other=/dev/hdb1
> label=win95
> table=/dev/hdb1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here's your problem. Change it to
table=/dev/hdb
[...]
> Can someone explain to me exactly what the table entry does in this
> situation
According to "man 5 lilo.conf", it instructs lilo that the partition
table information for the disk hosting Windows is to be retrieved from
the named device, and that the information should be passed to the OS:
: table=device
: This specifies the device that contains the parti�
: tion table. The boot loader will not pass parti�
: tion information to the booted operating system if
: this variable is omitted. (Some operating systems
: have other means to determine from which partition
: they have been booted. E.g., MS-DOS usually stores
: the geometry of the boot disk or partition in its
: boot sector.) Note that /sbin/lilo must be re-run
: if a partition table mapped referenced with `table'
: is modified.
> and if it is necessary (lilo documentation is very vague)?
As you already found out, it is.
> Does Windows require that it is on the Primary Master disk?
I never bothered to actually install a Win'95, I suppose it will
boot ok if and only if you don't have DOS partitions on the primary
disk. Anyway, you can instruct lilo to swap the (logical) disks:
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
Alternatively, you can make the Windows disk primary, Linux has no
problem booting from a secondary disk. All you have to do is switch the
jumpers, edit fstab and lilo.conf, and run lilo.
> Does lilo work with FAT32 systems (using lilo version 20)?
Lilo doesn't care about the filesystems for entries of type "other".
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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