On Thu, 4 May 2000, matthschulz wrote: >On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: >> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> >> >> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides >> >> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup >> >> installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from >> >> hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have >> >> it boot linux from hdc1? >> >> >> >lilo.conf: change the boot=/dev/hdc into boot=/dev/hda >> >image=/dev/hdc1 should be already there and it is fine. >> >and an option other=/dev/hda1 is needed for booting the other os. >> >> I tried that, but LILO hangs with LI-. I did run lilo to update >> the MBR - several times. In lilo.conf I have: [...] >What does lilo say when You run it?
Nothing unusual: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>lilo -v LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Boot image: /vmlinuz Added Linux (alias lnx) * Boot other: /dev/hda1, loader /boot/chain.b Added Windows (alias win) /boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made. Writing boot sector. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
