LILO Dual-boot blues
Hello all,
I am installing a dual-boot Linux/Win2K machine for a graduate student
at the University I work at and I am having a major problem with LILO.
The machine is a Gateway2000 E-4200. I have woody installed on
/dev/hdb with /dev/hdb2 as the root of the filesystemand /dev/hdb1 as
the /boot partition. Windows 2000 is installed on /dev/hda1. I have
the LILO bootstrapper installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. The
/etc/lilo.conf is unchanged from what debconf set up during installation.
What happens when I try to boot the system is this ... nothing at all.
The POST runs the screen blanks and the cursor sits flashing in the
upper left-hand corner of the screen. I have used dd to copy the MBR of
/dev/hda to a file, looked at it with ghex, and it appears to be a valid
LILO bootstrap program.
My question is this ... does anyone have any experience with
dual-booting on the Gateway E-4200? Does anyone know if the ROM-BIOS on
that machine supports booting off of anything but BIOS Device 0x80
(Primary Master IDE device)? I have pored over the Dual-Boot-HOWTOs and
even compared /etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf on my sarge box at
home (dual-boot Debian testing/Win95), all to no avail. The system
boots up just fine using my Debian CD1 with "rescue root=/dev/hdb2"
typed in at the "boot:" prompt, so it doesn't appear to be
filesystem-related. It just appears that the system is refusing to run
the bootstrapper for LILO.
Thanks in advance,
ninewands
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