[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

Does your BIOS know to boot /dev/hdb, rather than /dev/hda?  If you go
directly into Windoze, I'll bet this is the problem.  If this is the
case, you could place the MBR on /dev/hda, which would wipe out whatever
XP has installed and replace it with lilo.

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:25:51PM -0600, quoth 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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