Re: Lilo-problem: linux on the 'second' hd

[virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi>]

Hi, 

I did it according to Your advice. It worked fine. 

So I can recommend this lilo.conf file to the others who have got 

dos on the 'first' (=C in dos) hardisk 
and 
linux on the 'second' harddisk.

hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi

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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Tom Pfeifer wrote:

> virtanen wrote:
> > 1)
> > My machine has got the following OS's and hd's:
> > 
> > On the hda there is win98 and on the hdb there is 'debian' slink.
> > The machine bios cannot boot from hdb.
> > 
> > 2) Is it possible and safe to install 'lilo' so that I can boot both the
> > OS directly from the hard disks?
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > a)
> > How should the lilo.conf file be written?
> 
> > b)
> > Is it possible to get lilo 'out from the mbr' (the previous situation
> > restored) just by 'lilo -u' command if something goes wrong?
> 
> 
> Yes, no problem. You can use essentially the same /etc/lilo.conf as
> Johann did, with a couple of possible changes:
> 
> 1) His root partition is /dev/hdb2. Just substitute yours in the "root="
> line.
> 2) If you're running slink, you have the old Lilo, so the "lba32" line
> is not valid. You don't need that anyway if your root partition is below
> 1024 cylinders.
> 
> Here's a start: (I added a couple of minor things)
> 
> boot=/dev/hda     (install Lilo in MBR)
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> prompt
> timeout=100       
> vga=normal
> image=/vmlinuz    (assumes this is where your kernel is)
>   root=/dev/your_root_partition
>   label=Linux
>   read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
>   label=win98
> 
> Look at the file /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt for explanations of options,
> or to find others you may want to use.
> 
> Lilo automatically backs up the sector that it replaces when you run the
> 'lilo' command. 'lilo -u' will reverse that process, and put back
> whatever was there before. However, unless you specify otherwise, it
> will only make the backup the FIRST time you install lilo to any
> particular location such as /dev/hda. It names the backup file according
> to where Lilo was installed and keeps that file in /boot.
> 
> So in your case where you're installing to the MBR (boot=/dev/hda), the
> original MBR that you replace will be the one that 'lilo -u' will put
> back. In other words, you can install Lilo a 2nd or 3rd or 4th time to
> the MBR if you want to tweak things, but still be able to restore the
> original MBR with 'lilo -u'. 
> 
> Again, see /usr/doc/Manual.txt or 'man lilo' for more info.