Kirk....sure it works with seperate / and /boot. Here's one of
my multiboot systems that uses scsi drives to boot Dos 6.22,
Mandrake 7.0, Storm 2000 and Windows 98 SE.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 26 208813+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 27 1106 8675100 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 27 28 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 29 44 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 45 566 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 567 568 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 569 584 128488+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda10 585 1106 4192933+ 83
Linux
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 553 4441941 b Win95 FAT32
...and here's another that uses ide drives to boot WinNt 4.0,
Mandrake 7.0, and Win98.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 260 2088418+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 393 784 3148740 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 393 395 24066 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 396 404 72261 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 405 784 3052318+ 83 Linux
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1023 2062336+ b Win95 FAT32
Neither of my systems are as complex as your design, but the
scsi one boots 4 different operating systems on two seperate
drives and I'm just about to add BEos to the ide machine to make
it also boot 4 operating systems on two seperate drives. I use
BootMagic rather than lilo to control the multiple booting.
Alan
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
>
> vice versa
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