[lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

If you get tired of banging your head against this, may I suggest giving 
GRUB a try.  I was turned onto this
(http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/2002.06/msg00079.html), and
have been in booting heaven ever since.

-d

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:18:29AM -0600, quoth 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
> 
> 
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