Re: win98/hamm dual boot problem
On 19 Aug 98 13:39:43 GMT, mstenner@phy.duke.edu wrote:
>Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed
>hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was
>hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win
>as hdb. THis was nothing new for linux, so I started up linux and ran
>lilo with the following lilo.conf:
>
>boot=/dev/hda1
>delay=50
>image=/vmlinuz
> root=/dev/hda1
> label=linux
> read-only
>other=/dev/hdb1
> label=win
> table=/dev/hdb
>
>linux boots well via lilo now, but windows doesn't boot at all: after
>typing "win" at LILO:, it just hangs. Any ideas at all would be very
>much appreciated.
When you installed Win98 it put itself on the C: drive (hda1), and
you've now placed another disk in that position. Problem is, Windows
still thinks it should be on hda1, and is getting confused. As far as
I know, Win95/98 will not boot from the secondary IDE channel.
I would suggest swapping the drives aroung again, and re-installing
LILO onto hda (change the parameters in lilo.conf beforehand). Linux
is less picky about which drive you stick it on, or even if you move
it after installation.
Rob Wilderspin
--
"But I need it to crash once every few days -
reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..."
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