Re: Using LILO on non-linux disk
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 17:21,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > Can I use LILO directly, bypassing the bootmagic entirely--that is
> > reference lilo.conf to the "c" disk "/dev/hdba" and when I boot, go
> > directly to LILO
>
> "/dev/hdba" is bad ... something whacky ...
> - you should avoid typo mistakes in lilo.conf
Yes, hda1 is correct.
>
> windoze is usually /dev/hda1 ( aka C: ) and best to keep it that way on
> /dev/hda1
>
> linux hopefully is on a different disk say /dev/hdc
>
> > and choose linux or windows?
>
> yup... lilo can overwrite the MBR to boot either linux or windoze
OK tried it. The results:
Go the lilo menu OK. Boot to Linux partition OK. Boot to Windows -- Goes to
the lilo menu again.
So I -U'd. Now I get the bootmagic menu once more. Boot to linux -- get the
lilo menu there, etc. Boot to windows ..... get the lilo menu again. No
escape :-(
I can get to a floppy. So I went to a boot floppy to fdisk /MBR. The floppy
will not read files on that partition, does not like the media. fdisk /MBR
does not complain but does not anything.
So ... I can always cp -a to somewhere else and redo that partition but would
prefer to fix it. How? (I do not think lilo saved what I thought it did.)
Alternatively or additonally, how can I get the Windows menu choice on
a /dev/hda1 lilo boot record to "stay put".
Here is the lilo.conf--I will take out all the comments and stuff to keep it
short:
lba32
root=/dev/hdb1
# Specifies the boot device
# I made the one hda1 when I lilod to the windows partition
boot=/dev/hdb1
#compact
bitmap=/boot/sid.bmp
bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
install=bmp
# delay=20
prompt
timeout=50
map=/boot/map
vga=6
# things can get a little too big
ramdisk=8129
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686-smp
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-686-smp
label=2.6.8
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
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