[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Glenn Murray]

I gave that (boot=/dev/hda) a shot, but then the system wouldn't boot
any OS, but kept looping through the boot cycle; hitting TAB at the
LILO 2... (whatever) prompt did not display the choices.  I had to dd
the boot loader LILO had saved back to /dev/hda.

Odd, I thought that having Linux on a separate hard drive would make
things easier, not harder.  Does grub handle this sort of thing
better?

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

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

> 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       /
> ...
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