On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:18:11AM +0200, Kirk McElhearn wrote: -> Well, after all, I cannot boot off of anything on the second disk. -> -> I first tried a boot manager called gag, that runs off a floppy. I -> figured that this would be easier than messing with liloconf. No dice, -> it does not seem to want to boot off the second HD. I suspect it has -> something to do with the fact that I have the /boot on one partition and -> the / on another. -> -> Then I tried Lilo, and that doesn't work either. I have the following: -> -> hda1 is my win partition -> hda6 is my Mandrake 1 partition -> -> These two can boot fine -> -> hdb1 is my Mandrake 2 /boot partition -> hdb11 is my Mandrake 2 / partition -> -> Lilo won't accept anything I try for the second disk. I have tried: -> -> image=/boot/vmlinuz -> root=/dev/hdb1 -> label=md -> -> I thought this would tell it to look in the /boot partition and find the -> right kernel, but no dice. I get a message saying there is no init. -> -> Can this really work with seperate /boot and / partitions? -> -> Kirk You may need a special "loader" line for booting from other hard drives. This stanza is from an old lilo.conf, of ancient vintage (the file is dated 13 Oct 1996): # DOS bootable partition config begins other = /dev/hdb1 label = dos # use the d: drive loader. loader = /boot/any_d.b table = /dev/hdb # DOS bootable partition config ends -> -> -> -> vice versa -> Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing -> Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique -> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mcelhearn.com -> Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
