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Re: Lilo boot from second drive?




On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 bmward@inet.net.nz wrote:

> An unusual situation! 

normal stuff...
 
> I can't get it to work for booting Linux on the slave, using LILO. The MBR gets
> read and then the screen fills with '01's.

what is the contents of your lilo.conf?

it should be
	boot=/dev/hda
	lba32
	...
	image=/boot/vmlinuz-blah
	   label=GoodieBox
	   root=/dev/hda1		or whatever is / on your disk

	other = /dev/hdb
	   label=BadWin98Box

> Is it possible to boot Linux from the slave drive when the master is not present?

what is the bios set for ??

- hd0  means the first hard disk, not necessarily /dev/hda

- your bios should be set for in this order
	hd1	( when both removable master and slave )
		- lilo is on the windows disks

	hd0	( removable master --OR-- just slave )
		- lilo is on the removable disk

c ya
alvin



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