Hi,
Although I have not had much experience with this, let me try -
1. Why exec ?
You are mounting a Windows bootable disk. Unless you have 'wine'
(windows emulator), you will not be executing the binaries on this
disk. You do not need this option.
2. Why dev ?
I do not think you need to distinguish between char and block devices
on a Windows disk. This is not required.
3. Likewise, suid is also not required.
I think, the fstab entry should be :
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos vfat rw 1 1
Also, in the /etc/lilo.conf file, delete the 2 lines -
table=/dev/hdb
root=/dev/hdb1
retaining just the lines for the Windows disk :
other = /dev/hdb1
label = dos
I think, this should work.
Sanchet
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Jean-Louis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have Linux running on a first hard drive (/dev/hda) without any problem.
>
>I installed a second hard drive (an ex-master hard drive- which became
slave-
>with a Windows installation, bootable, from a different computer). I
modified
>/etc/fstab as follows:
>/dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
>I can mount it and access it through /mnt/dos.
>
>Now, I'd like to add it to Lilo, with the choice of booting either on
Linux or
>Windows. I added these lines to /etc/lilo.conf:
> other = /dev/hdb1
> label = dos
> table=/dev/hdb
> root=/dev/hdb1
>At the boot prompt, I enter DOS and then the system freezes.
>I read that "map=/dev/hdb" could help but it does not.
>
>Does any body know how/what to modify to have the second drive bootable?
>
>Thanks so much for your help.
>
>Jean-Louis
>
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