[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[D. Stimits]

Glenn Murray wrote:
> 
> I've just been able to afford two hard drives on one computer, and now
> am trying to figure out how to get LILO to handle booting the two
> OSes.  On the other installations I've done they've been on different
> partitions of the same drive.
> 
> hda1       XP
> hdb1       /home
> hdb2       /swap
> hdb5       /
> 
> I boot fine from a floppy, but running lilo on my old lilo.conf is not
> putting the right info in the right place---the lilo "gui" does not
> appear.  The HOW-TOs are giving me way way more information than I can
> use, but from the man pages I'm guessing that I'm on hdb when I run
> LILO and I need to invoke it with a -b <boot-loader> or -A
> <master-device> option---I don't understand either.
> 
> Any help?

What is the content of your lilo.conf file? What especially is the
"boot=" line?

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com