LILO on second drive?
Greetings all,
Having read various docs, etc on Lilo, and having never used it before (Always
had Linux on it's own primary drive, etc) I would like to use lilo to make
a slave
drive bootable (kinda tired of using boot floppies). Now, my BIOS
supports booting
from any drive letter, so even tho I have OS's installed on /dev/hda I can
tell the bios
to boot drive , /hdb1 and basically ignore the existance of /dev/hda
alltogether.
The problem is that lilo refuses to install a master boot record, etc,
because it
correctly detects that it is being asked to do so on a secondary
drive. Basically
I would like to be able to force lilo to do what I want, and make the secondary
drive completely bootable so I can just switch my bios between booting drive 0
and drive 1 at will.
When I boot drive D at this time, I get a lilo prompt that looks similar to
this:
F1: linux
F2: ????
F3: linux
F3 default.
The machine then locks up.
Any suggestions?
Todd
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Todd Suess
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