RE: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98
If Win98 is on hda and Linux on hdb and you can successfully boot into
Win98, you are halfway there. Now boot from a rescue disk and run lilo with
boot=/dev/hda as below.
David Sanders
david@sandersweb.net
http://www.sandersweb.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anand Parikh [mailto:anand_a_parikh@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:49 AM
> To: Tom Massey
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98
>
>
>
> I understand the lilo.conf file you suggested. Only problem is
> that when I edit
> the file with Linux on HDA, I have to uncomment the Win98 part, otherwise
> I get errors running "lilo". BTW, I have lba32.
> On booting up with Win98 on HDA and Linux on HDB it goes to Win98
> without any
> choice. If I disconnect HDA, LILO tries to start booting Linux
> but doesn't go
> anywhere (due to boot=/dev/hda ??).
> Looks like catch-22 trying to switch around...How do I get around it?
>
> Thanks to all for helping out.
>
> Anand
>
> --- Tom Massey <tom_massey@pacific.net.au> wrote:
> > * Anand Parikh <anand_a_parikh@yahoo.com> [2002-09-27 00:06]:
> > >
> > > I tried it with removing "table" but its the same problem
> with windoze.
> > > If I want to try with Win98 on HDA and Linux on HDB, how do I put LILO
> > > in the MBR of /dev/hda?
> > > What should boot point to in that case?
> >
> > I think /etc/lilo.conf should look something like:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > delay=10
> >
> > image=/vmlinuz
> > root=/dev/hdb2
> > label=Linux
> >
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > table=/dev/hda
> > label=Win98
> >
> > But this is because I've only had success booting Windows 98
> > from /dev/hda1 - this is apparently not necessary. You might
> > also try adding 'lba32' to the file, just under delay.
>
>
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