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Re: Lilo & hdb



Thanks Christian, that did the trick. I did a little further research.
I should be able to use this technique to boot an OS from any disk as
long as I use the correct hexadecimal values.

Jason

On 25 Jan, Christian Rishøj wrote:
> 
>> Subject: Re: Lilo & hdb
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:27:50 -1000 (HST)
>> From: jchristensen@hawaii.rr.com
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> 
>> Alec, thanks for the info. I was useful as Win2k does have boot loader
>> similar to NT4's. I could just make hda1 the partition with Win2k by
>> physically swapping the drives and then use the boot loader from Win2k
>> (given the necessary tweaks).
>> 
>> That solutions is however more work than I'm willing to do to play with
>> Microsoft's latest bloatware ... I mean OS, whoops. Does anyone know a
>> way I can boot Win2k from hdb1 using LILO?
> 
> Hi, perhaps this can help you. I am putting these lines in my lilo.conf
> to be able to boot Win95 from hdb1:
> 
> other=/dev/hdb1
>          label=dos
>          table=/dev/hdb
>          map-drive=0x80 to=0x81
>          map-drive=0x81 to=0x80
> 
> The trick is to make Win95 think that it is actually booting from hda :D
> 
> - Christian
> 
> 



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