Re: Another LILO problem
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Jaron Abbott wrote:
> 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.
i have the same setup; it can be done, with windoze as the primary slave
no less.
> 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."
Had this problem, see below for how i solved it.
> 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.
Wish i had a 8G HD... Good sign that Win boots if BIOS is set to boot from
pri slave.
> Thanks for any help, and sorry if I'm missing something obvious. I've
> tried my best with the documentation.
i haven't looked in the docs for a while, but the text that led to mine
was buried deep. Perhaps it's been clarified lately, i'm not sure.
The problem is that Win likes being on the primary master, for some odd
reason (especially if it was installed that way, then the hardware changed
later). But, it's pretty easy to fool. You just need to tell BIOS to swap
the drives when booting into windows, by the time Win loads its own
drivers for HD access it doesn't care anymore where it is.
My lilo.conf looks something like this. Comments have been added for an
attempt at clarity ;)
=========START=========
boot=/dev/hda
vga=normal
map=/boot/map
# The password is to prevent people from rebooting into win too easily
# This sets that any boot requires the password XXXXXXXX to continue
# lilo.conf should be chmod go-rwx so no one can get in here.
# BIOS passwd is also set, booting from floppy disabled.
password=XXXXXXXX
# Next 4 lines set up a simple menu. Prompt tells it to prompt, timeout
# says to wait for 100 deciseconds, /boot/startup-msg contains the menu
# text, and default is what to boot after 100 deciseconds with no input
prompt
timeout=100
message=/boot/startup-msg
default=Linux
# Linux image, the default.
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda1
label=Linux
read-only
alias=1
# This overrides the password option above. With restricted, the
# password is only required if command-line options are used.
restricted
# This boots the previous kernel. In case a kernel upgrade goes bad i
# can still get in with the previous, known-good kernel.
image=/vmlinuz.old
root=/dev/hda1
label=oldLinux
read-only
alias=3
# Remember, this requires a password from above.
# Windows
other=/dev/hdb1
table=/dev/hdb
# Next 4 lines do the magic, any BIOS-level disk access will think
# pri slave is master and master is slave.
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
label=win
alias=2
# Remember, password required from above.
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