On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:59:20AM -0000, Vandana Sudheer wrote:
>
> In my system I have Win98, Win 2000 Server and Redhat 7.1.
> I use LILO to boot. But today when I tried to start Win 98
> from boot menu it rejected to start Win 98 with a message
> saying
>
> I/O Error
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition
>
> I am able to start Redhat and Windows 2000.
>
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Vandana,
It is my personal view, that LILO (though very much the
default loader for Linux), is not very hot in handling the
multi-OS scene. The preferred multi-booter to my experi-
ence should belong to the OS which is placed at /dev/hda1.
It ovecomes the large-drive/ EDO support in BIOS problems
(1024-voodoo), and the purpose is also achieved.
Though Linux is very gracious, M$ is rather possessive
about the MBR, and NT/ 2k/ XP/ 9x disk managers may com-
plain or even "correct" MBR entries! You maybe aware that
unlike M$ MBR which is 512 bytes, LILO boot record is 446
bytes long.
Normally, if every bootable OS is on PRIMARY partition
there are no problems. The problems arise when one of
these (ususally Linux) is placed on an extended, a common
practice with modern Linux distros.
I am of the view that; if Linux is in /dev/hda1, LILO
will do with the exception that it cannot handle UMSDOS
installs. If Win-2k or NT is at /dev/hda1, it should be
through NT/2k boot.ini, and if it is Win-9x, do a loadlin
multi-boot. It keeps M$ happy, (and also various virus
checkers happy). I repeat, this is my personal view, and
not the universal law, or anything such ... From experi-
ence, I know that this combination poses the least amount
of problems.
Alternatively, use dedicated boot loaders like grub, if
under Linux or things like Xosl for M$. Virus checkers may
still growl !
To set your system right at the moment, all that is
needed is to go through your /etc/lilo.conf, check that
everyting is in order and re-run lilo as root "lilo -v".
You will get back to normal LILO triple boot until you run
some M$ disk managers which do their own magic !
HTH
Bish
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