Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-05 Thread Jo Hoffmann
I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have it boot linux from hdc1? lilo.conf:

lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Philip Lehman
I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have it boot linux from hdc1? I'm familiar with

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have it boot linux from hdc1? lilo.conf:

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread matthschulz
On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from hda. Is

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 4 May 2000, matthschulz wrote: On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup installed a MBR on hdc, but my

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread matthschulz
On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: On Thu, 4 May 2000, matthschulz wrote: What does lilo say when You run it? Nothing unusual: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~lilo -v LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Boot

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
lilo.conf: change the boot=/dev/hdc into boot=/dev/hda image=/dev/hdc1 should be already there and it is fine. and an option other=/dev/hda1 is needed for booting the other os. I tried that, but LILO hangs with LI-. I did run lilo to update the MBR - several times. In lilo.conf I have: