Thanks Christian, that did the trick. I did a little further research. I should be able to use this technique to boot an OS from any disk as long as I use the correct hexadecimal values.
Jason On 25 Jan, Christian Rishøj wrote: > >> Subject: Re: Lilo & hdb >> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:27:50 -1000 (HST) >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >> Alec, thanks for the info. I was useful as Win2k does have boot loader >> similar to NT4's. I could just make hda1 the partition with Win2k by >> physically swapping the drives and then use the boot loader from Win2k >> (given the necessary tweaks). >> >> That solutions is however more work than I'm willing to do to play with >> Microsoft's latest bloatware ... I mean OS, whoops. Does anyone know a >> way I can boot Win2k from hdb1 using LILO? > > Hi, perhaps this can help you. I am putting these lines in my lilo.conf > to be able to boot Win95 from hdb1: > > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=dos > table=/dev/hdb > map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 > map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 > > The trick is to make Win95 think that it is actually booting from hda :D > > - Christian > >
