Re: LILO and IDE primary slave drives
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> From what I can tell from the LILO documentation, LILO can't boot from
> the slave drive on the primary IDE controller. Is this correct?
Nope. Until just recently I did this for 18 months; I had Win95 on
/dev/hda, with my Debian root on /dev/hdb, and /home on /dev/sda. Worked
perfect.
> I don't want to try the linear option because I may need to boot from a
> floppy in the future. Specifying
>
> disk = /dev/hdb
> bios = 0x81
>
> did not make the HD bootable.
>
> boot.b, vmlinuz, and everything else is properly located in /boot on
> hdb1
>
> my bios supports a D drive boot, and the LI error says it's geometry or
> you haven't written a new boot.b and I've tried both.
>
> Any input greatly appreciated!
How about a lilo.conf that I used to dual-boot Win9x/Linux? Note that I'm
going by memory, but it should work.
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hdb1
install=/boot/boot.b
delay=20
map=/boot/map
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13
label=2.2.13
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
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"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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