>> 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 What LI means: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. What I think is that you need to have the /boot directory with all its files on the boot=/dev/???. The two important files are /boot/map and /boot/boot.b . With the option map=/boot/map and install=/boot/boot.b you can specify where those two files are, but only relative two boot=/dev/???. (At least that's my understanding) What I suggest is create a small partition with the contends of the /boot directory say /dev/hda1, and mount /dev/hda1 under /boot. And try to configure as follows, boot=/dev/hda1 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b root=dev/hdc ... You could first try this on a floppy (so that you don't need to repartition). I don't know whether it is possible to actually keep the files in /boot on a dos or vfat partition (might be another possibility) For further information: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html#toc4, and http://www.spade.com/linux/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html#toc12 These are standard HOWTO's that you should also have on your system. Cheers, Jo ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
