[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Glenn Murray]

Dan,

Thanks, for the reply.   I can't use "linear" instead of "lba32":

glenn/$ sudo lilo
Warning: device 0x0345 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit.
   Use of the 'lba32' option may help on newer (EDD BIOS) systems.
Warning:  LINEAR may generate cylinder# above 1023 at boot-time.
Fatal: Sector address 41105413 too large for LINEAR (try LBA32 instead).

So, using "lba32" in the example you provided (below) I get an error:

glenn/$ sudo lilo
Added Linux (alias l) *
Added Windows
Syntax error at or above line 20 in file /etc/lilo.conf

Line 20 is "root=/dev/hda1".  I thought maybe there was a spurious
copy/paste error, so I typed it in again, but no go.  I haven't
rebooted, yet.

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

On Fri, 31 May 2002, D. Stimits wrote:

lba32 # try commenting this out, using linear instead.
#linear
boot=/dev/hda
# root=/dev/hdb5 # comment out, use only for individual boot sections.
# compact # comment out
install=/boot/boot.b
delay=90
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
################################################# Linux
image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only
        root=/dev/hdb5
        alias=l

################################################# Windoze
other=/dev/hda1
        label=Windows
        root=/dev/hda1
        alias=w
#        table=/dev/hda # comment out till other parts work