If at all possible, I'd like to suggest the following:
DOS/Windows9x need to be on the first physical hard drive, and in a
primary partition.
My suggestion, if it's possible, is to:
A) make a boot diskette...and make sure to modify it so that /dev/hdb is
the Linux boot drive.
B) Switch your drives between master and slave.
C) Boot from your Linux boot diskette
D) Once linux boots, run "lilo" so that it installs LILO into your boot
sector, and recognizes Windows on your first hard drive, and Linux on your
second.
That should be just about it.
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> hello.
>
> i've read some posts about this on the internet and still can't make sense of
> this. i have lilo 21.6 and redhat 6.2. my first hd (/dev/hda) is all for
> linux. my second hd (/dev/hdb) is all for windows. here is the lilo.conf i
> use...
>
> # LILO configuration created by QuickInst 21 Wed Dec 27 01:32:36
> /etc/localtime 2000
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> compact
> delay = 5 # optional, for systems that boot very quickly
> vga = normal # force sane state
> root = current # use "current" root
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = linux
> other = /dev/hdb1
> table = /dev/hdb
> loader = /boot/chain.b
> label = win32
>
> at first, under other, i had "loader = /boot/any_d.b" but lilo was
> complaining about not finding it, so i changed it to "loader = /boot/chain.b"
> and now when i try to boot win32, its just sits there and does nothing.
>
> i've read posts that say its impossible, and others that say you gotta do
> such and such, and i've tried their suggestions with no success. any
> comments or suggestions? thanks a ton for your help...
>
> dangit, accually, i just thought of something that might be causing it to
> mess up. on my second hd, i have windows >and< linux (i've been mounting my
> linux partition (on hdb) to copy files). the mbr (of hdb) has lilo in it
> that dual boots win98 and linux. so is lilo (on the mbr on hda) trying to
> boot off of hdb and running into lilo again on the mbr of hdb? if so, how do
> i erase the mbr of my second hd without wiping out the mbr of my 1st hd
> (knowing my luck, thats prolly what will happen).
>
> thanks a ton.
> christopher
>
>
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