Re: Using LILO on non-linux disk

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya david

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, David Baron wrote:

> OK tried it. The results:
> Go the lilo menu OK. Boot to Linux partition OK. Boot to Windows -- Goes to 
> the lilo menu again.

whacky :-) but that's windoze 4u 
 
> 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 :-(

sounds like we need to wipe bootmagic too

-- once you are in linux ...
	dd if=/boot/boot.0364 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 sync

	assuming your linux is on /dev/hdb   ( root=/dev/hdb1 )

-- or in DOS ... fdisk /mbr

c ya
alvin

> root=/dev/hdb1

good

> # Specifies the boot device
> # I made the one hda1 when I lilod to the windows partition
> boot=/dev/hdb1

BAD ...

boot=/dev/hda
	--
	-- you want to overwrite windoze bootloader with lilo
	-- so you can use lilo to boot windoze(/dev/hda1) or
	-- linux (/dev/hdb1)
 	--

> 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

take out all that junk ( 5 lines ) for now

> # things can get a little too big
> ramdisk=8129

remove that ... ( experiment with and witout it )

	- make sure you have a linux boot disk that
	you can boot off of into linux to experiment
 
> 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

good ...
    
> other=/dev/hda1
>  label=windows

good ..
 
> other=/dev/fd0
>  label=floppy

remove this  ( both lines )

c ya
alvin