LILO Dual-boot blues

[Charles Wilkins]

Hello all,

 I am installing a dual-boot Linux/Win2K machine for a graduate student 
at the University I work at and I am having a major problem with LILO. 
The machine is a Gateway2000 E-4200.  I have woody installed on 
/dev/hdb with /dev/hdb2 as the root of the filesystemand /dev/hdb1 as 
the /boot partition.  Windows 2000 is installed on /dev/hda1.  I have 
the LILO bootstrapper installed in the MBR of /dev/hda.  The 
/etc/lilo.conf is unchanged from what debconf set up during installation.

 What happens when I try to boot the system is this ... nothing at all. 
The POST runs the screen blanks and the cursor sits flashing in the 
upper left-hand corner of the screen.  I have used dd to copy the MBR of 
/dev/hda to a file, looked at it with ghex, and it appears to be a valid 
LILO bootstrap program.

 My question is this ... does anyone have any experience with 
dual-booting on the Gateway E-4200?  Does anyone know if the ROM-BIOS on 
that machine supports booting off of anything but BIOS Device 0x80 
(Primary Master IDE device)?  I have pored over the Dual-Boot-HOWTOs and 
even compared /etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf on my sarge box at 
home (dual-boot Debian testing/Win95), all to no avail.  The system 
boots up just fine using my Debian CD1 with "rescue root=/dev/hdb2" 
typed in at the "boot:" prompt, so it doesn't appear to be 
filesystem-related.  It just appears that the system is refusing to run 
the bootstrapper for LILO.

Thanks in advance,

ninewands



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