Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

[Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

>> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides
>> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup
>> installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from
>> hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have
>> it boot linux from hdc1?
>> 
>lilo.conf: change the boot=/dev/hdc into boot=/dev/hda
>image=/dev/hdc1 should be already there and it is fine.
>and an option other=/dev/hda1 is needed for booting the other os.

I tried that, but LILO hangs with LI-. I did run lilo to update
the MBR - several times. In lilo.conf I have:

boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hdc1
...
image=/vmlinuz
...
other=/dev/hda1
...

-- 
Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>