Re: Another LILO problem
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a system with two IDE hard drives. The primary master is a
> recent install of Debian (just the install disks so far) and the primary
> slave is Windows 98. I'd like to make it dual-boot. Thanks to recent
> posts regarding this issue by Alvin Oga, I've done my best to write a
> lilo.conf for this (below). However, when I boot and type "Win98" at
> the boot prompt, all it says is "Loading Win98," and then stalls. When
> I try commenting out the line "table=/dev/hdb1," it says "Error Loading
> OS." The Linux partition seems to be okay (although I'm still not sure
> what I'm going to do about the 8GB limit). FWIW, the Win98 drive does
> boot, but only if I set the BIOS to boot directly from that disk.
>
> Thanks for any help, and sorry if I'm missing something obvious. I've
> tried my best with the documentation.
Problem is this: Windows has to be on primary master. It wont boot off
anything else. So you need to swap those two partitions.
Andrew
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Andrei S. Ivanov
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