Re: Lilo boot from second drive? - twice
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 bmward@inet.net.nz wrote:
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> > 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
forgot to add ... you need to run lilo twice...
once with boot=/dev/hda
and another time with boot=/dev/hdc
( no other changes to lilo.conf )
> lba32
> ...
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-blah
> label=GoodieBox
> root=/dev/hda1 or whatever is / on your disk
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> other = /dev/hdb
> label=BadWin98Box
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> > Is it possible to boot Linux from the slave drive when the master is not present?
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> what is the bios set for ??
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> - hd0 means the first hard disk, not necessarily /dev/hda
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> - your bios should be set for in this order
> hd1 ( when both removable master and slave )
> - lilo is on the windows disks
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> hd0 ( removable master --OR-- just slave )
> - lilo is on the removable disk
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> c ya
> alvin
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