[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Glenn Murray]

In the BIOS settings you can select the boot order, but there is only
one hard disk option (which the BIOS calls C:), of course Linux is on
the other drive.  Is there some way to tell LILO to write to /dev/hda?
And, is that what I want?

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

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:

> 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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