Re: help with lilo

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

I believe the BIOS routines are incapable of reading from any but the first two disks
in your system. Do:

zless /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz

for more details.

twedi97@student.vxu.se wrote:

> Hi
>
> Does anyone know how to boot windows off /dev/hdc1. I installed Win by
> temporarly switching my disks, but I don't want to run the 'win-disk' as hda.
>
> Here is the part of my lilo.conf that defines booting windows:
>
>         #Dos
>         other=/dev/hdc1
>         label=win
>         table=/dev/hdc
>
> When I select 'win' from the lilo menu it says:
> 'Bad system disk. Replace disks and press any key.'
>
> The partion has the boot-flag set, so that could not be the problem.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tommy Westin
> E-Mail: twedi97@student.vxu.se
> Date: 06-Apr-99
> Time 23:42:05
>
> Johnson's law:
>         Systems resemble the organizations that create them.
>
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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