[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Glenn Murray]

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

Thanks,
Glenn Murray
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray

On Thu, 30 May 2002, D. Stimits wrote:

> 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
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