[ILUG] Two Hard Drives Boot Problem

[Reilly, John]

The exact syntax is in the lilo README. See from line 1727 in lilo-21.4.4
(shipped with rh7.1 and in /usr/share/doc/lilo-21.4.4) - its the map-drive
directive and make sure you have the correct loader (can't remember of the
top of my head - its my box at home that has this config)

Cheers,
jr



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ger [mailto:gerdono at eircom.net]
> Sent: 24 January 2002 00:02
> To: Marek Mc Gann; 'ilug at linux.ie'
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Two Hard Drives Boot Problem
> 
> 
> Marek
> 
> I had posted a description about how to dual boot with 2 
> drives on the old 
> website. So maybe some one has a copy of the old site they 
> could post the 
> relevent page here.
> 
> My System still has two drives but I have since made both 
> drive linux file 
> systems so I have lost the lilo.conf that I had.
> 
>  From Memory
> 
> You install Linux on First Primary Drive with LILO in the MBR 
> and Windows 
> on the second drive.
> 
> You will edit your lilo.conf to swap the drive bios numbers for your 
> Windows Label option.
> 
> Windows needs to boot from the First Primary IDE Drive on the 
> first Primary 
> Partition. This hack will do this for you even if the drive 
> is not on the 
> First Primary IDE
> 
> The exact syntax for the lilo.conf was on the old website.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Regards Ger
> 
> You add .At 10:08 23/01/02 +0000, Marek Mc Gann wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Just inherited a wonderful new machine with 10GB and 40GB 
> hard drives (both
> >IDE).
> >
> >Mandrake 8.1 went onto the 40GB one with no difficulty, but 
> now neither
> >Linux nor Windoze will boot (it was used to booting from the 
> 10GB). Having a
> >trawl around the web suggests that I've not got the second 
> drive set to
> >bootable (silly me), but should this be interfering with Win98 too?
> >
> >Linux gives me that lovely welcome in a hundred languages, 
> indicates init
> >2.78 is going to work, then hangs.
> >
> >Windows says something about a chainloader and does the same.
> >
> >Any help greatly appreciated,
> >
> >Marek
> >(Still a newbie)
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