Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

[matthschulz <matthschulz@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 
> >> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides
> >> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup
> >> installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from
> >> hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have
> >> it boot linux from hdc1?
> >> 
> >lilo.conf: change the boot=/dev/hdc into boot=/dev/hda
> >image=/dev/hdc1 should be already there and it is fine.
> >and an option other=/dev/hda1 is needed for booting the other os.
> 
> I tried that, but LILO hangs with LI-. I did run lilo to update
> the MBR - several times. In lilo.conf I have:
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hdc1
> ...
> iimage=/vmlinuz
  ^??????
> oother=/dev/hda1
  ^??????

What does lilo say when You run it?

Matth