lilo.conf for boot from hda and sda?

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

Hi,

It would be nice if someone could help me on this:

I have suse-6.3 om my hda and debian-2.2 on my sda. My bios supports
booting from either one, by changing boot order. However, it would be
very convenient to boot the other Linux version without changing the
bios settings! 

Curreent status is:
- Booting debian from hda have been working as long as I had only one target
  at the sda disk (slink, and nor pormpt etc). Now the boot hangs at LI!!
- Booting suse from sda cannot be tried due to errors in finding a
  valid boot image, see below.

Anyone who have gone through this before? The suse 6.3 installation
did not cover this case. Also reading the lilo and lilo.conf man-pages
did not give sufficient info to resolve this issu (at least not for me).

On hda/suse   / is mounted on hda6 and /boot on hda1.
On sda/debian / is mounted on sda1.

For lilo.conf files and info see below.

hda/suse63:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The lilo.conf for hda is shown below:
boot = /dev/hda
default = suse63
prompt
timeout=50
read-only
image = /boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/hda6
  label = suse63
other = /dev/sda1
  table = /dev/sda
  loader = /boot/chain.b
  label = debian

lilo -v:
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda6
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /vmlinuz
added suse63 *
added debian

sda/debian:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The lilo.conf for sda is shown below:
boot=/dev/sda1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
disk=/dev/sda
  bios = 0x80
disk=/dev/hda
  bios = 0x81
prompt
default=potato
timeout=50
image=/vmlinuz
  root=/dev/sda1
  label=potato
  read-only
#image=/vmlinuz.old
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
  label=slink
  read-only
# This is not accepted by lilo:
other = /dev/hda6
  table = /dev/hda
  loader = /boot/chain.b
  label = suse
  read-only

lilo -v:
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger

Reading boot sector from /dev/sda1
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /vmlinuz
Added potato *
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
Added slink
Boot other: /dev/hda6, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
First sector of /dev/hda6 doesn't have a valid boot signature

svante.signell@telia.com