[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[D. Stimits]

Someone already picked up on this, but here is some general info to
expand on it. hdb5 is a partition boot record (PBR), not a master boot
record (MBR). The MBR is always the initial loader, it can point
directly at a bootable area, or it can point at another loader (the
latter being chain loading). If you install to boot=/dev/hda, your
current boot loader will be overwritten, so have a recovery disk ready
for windows (or let it just repair the bootup in its repair mode I
think...not sure how XP does that, 2K can repair boot only). Change the
boot= line to point at /dev/hda (an MBR), rather than hda5 (a PBR), try
again.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

Glenn Murray wrote:
> 
> Here's the lilo.conf I've been trying to use...
> 
> lba32
> boot=/dev/hdb5
> root=/dev/hdb5
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> delay=90
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> ################################################# Linux
> image=/vmlinuz
>         label=Linux
>         read-only
>         alias=l
> 
> ################################################# Windoze
> other=/dev/hda1
>         table=/dev/hda
>         label=Windows
>         alias=w
> 
...
> > >
> > > hda1       XP
> > > hdb1       /home
> > > hdb2       /swap
> > > hdb5       /
...