-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey B. Ferland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting lilo to dual boot 98 from seperate drive??? On Mon, 29 May 2000, "Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Linux is on the primary disc (hda) and win98 is on the secondary disc (hdb). >I tried adding it to lilo but when I choose win98 at boot it doesn't do >anything. Do I have to do anything to win98 to make this work? What do I >need to do? >Thanks, >Aaron I thought I would be asking for help on this list, instead my first post is help... LILO loads Linux and allows other OSes on the SAME HD to boot. You would have to re-configure your BIOS to boot from drive D: (as Windoze sees it). Unfortuneately many BIOSes don't know how to boot from anything other than A:, C:, SCSI, and CD-ROM.... ---- No not true at all. A lot of people miss one of Lilo's neatest tricks. It can remap the "hardware"... what? You ask... is he talking about? Lilo can make you D: drive your C: drive... it can also do this to your third and fourth hard drive. Using Lilo you can put an OS on each drive and have each available to boot. When the respective OS comes up, it will think it "booted" and "owns" the boot device... Huh? From the Man page for lilo.conf... disk=device-name Defines non-standard parameters for the specified disk. See section "Disk geometry" of user.tex for details. Especially useful is the `bios=' parame� ter. The BIOS numbers your disks 0x80, 0x81, etc. and it is impossible to decide which Linux disk corresponds to which BIOS disk (since this depends on the BIOS setup, and on the type of BIOS), so if you have an unusual setup you need to state the correspondence between Linux disks and BIOS disks. For example, disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 would say that your SCSI disk is the first BIOS disk, and your (primary master) IDE disk is the second BIOS disk. Clear as mud... What this means is that you can use a parameter such as disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 The above lines make the "D:" drive the "C:" drive and the "C:" drive the "D:" drive. Using the above, you can put Windows 98 on the second hard drive and boot to it after selecting WIN98 from Lilo... Windows comes up thinking it's on the C: drive (which it is not). You can further extend this trick quite a bit... read the man, mam. -JMS
