Re: Need lilo help - won't boot Win2k

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> On Tue 10 Aug 04, 10:41 PM, John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au> said:
>  
>
> > Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a triple boot system with three drives:
> > >
> > > * /dev/hda - 80  GB PATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hda5)
> > > * /dev/hde - 250 GB SATA drive with Win2k (root is /dev/hde1)
> > > * /dev/hdg - 200 GB SATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hdg6)
> > >
> > > lilo can boot my two Debian drives.  When I try to boot into Win2k, a
> > > couple of extended ASCII characters (symbols like "yen" and "cents") get
> > > printed, but nothing else happens.  Win2k doesn't boot.
> > >
> > > Using fdisk, I've made sure that the 3 partitions on hde exist, hold the
> > > files they're supposed to hold, and hde1 (which holds the actual MS OS)
> > > is marked bootable.
> > >
> > > The motherboard is an Abit NF7-S, and I'm using the sata_sil module, and
> > > other than this, have had no problems with it.  SATA on Linux has been
> > > great.  My BIOS is set to boot off of HDD-0.  There's an option to boot
> > > off the SATA drives though.
> > >
> > > As a last note, I tried Grub, and it didn't boot Win2k either.  When I
> > > chose Win2k from the Grub menu, I was dumped into the Grub bash-like
> > > console and didn't go any further (I'm reasonably experienced with lilo,
> > > but a Grub newbie).
> > >
> > > My lilo.conf follows, everything looks fine with it.
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > What was the drive configuration when you _installed_ w2k?
> >    
>
> When Win2k was installed on hde, the system looked like:
>
>   hde (SATA): empty
>   hdg (SATA): empty
>
> In other words, the PATA drive wasn't in the sytem.  I added that after
> the Win2k install.
>  

Thort so.

> BTW, when I change the BIOS boot order from:
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>   boot off HDD-0
>
> to
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>   boot off SATA
>
> the sytem boots right into Win2k, and the boot looks healthy.
>
> Thanks!
> Pete
>
>  

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Cheers
John

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