Well, i finally got it working. Boots all three. I gave up on lilo because (after extensive reading) i found that lilo will not boot if it is on anything but the first hard drive. And windows nt will not boot unless it is the first hard drive. I found both in documentation but i beg to differ because i used to have that setup working. At any rate, i broke down and used the ntloader and (again after extensive reading) found how to correctly create the linux boot sector file. If anyone needs help, email me and i can tell you what i did. Thanks bruce et all. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Bauer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Configuring LILO When you reinstalled Windows, did you do any disk partitioning that resulted in a different number of logical drives? If you did, it will change how MS operating systems assign drive letters and can really mess up NT. Linux shouldn't care as long as the physical drive init sequence stays the same. What nearly trashed my system was a BIOS update that caused the IDE ZIP drive to be initialized ahead of the SCSI drives. What saved me was a SUSE 6.1 installation floppy disk. It can locate already installed linux systems and boot them (my installed system is RedHat 6.1). Then I added disk=...BIOS=... lines to tell LILO where the drives were. > Well, i'm sort of stuck right now. I've been working with LILO for a while > and it's always worked and now i'm running into trouble. Here's the setup: > > On the motherboard > > Pri IDE Channel > MASTER: Hard Drive 1 (IBM 8GIG) Redhat Linux 6.0 > SLAVE: Hard Drive 2 (WDC 2GIG) NT 4.0 Workstation > > Sec IDE Channel > MASTER: DVD ROM > SLAVE: 100MB Zip Drive > > Promise PCI Ultra ATA 66 Card > > Pri IDE Channel > MASTER: Hard Drive 3 (IBM 34GIG) Windows 98 > > and the rest of the card is empty. Now I had this config working by booting > them using lilo about 2 weeks ago. Then i need to reinstall windows 98 > because well, you know how windows is...so afterwards i couldn't boot nt > without getting the bsod. The problem is the drive was not being correctly > mapped. I was wondering if anyone has this config working, or a similar > config working with 3 drives. I tried moving them around but for some > reason linux won't boot if its hdb but nt works fine, meanwhile windows98 > won't boot on either config plus it needs to stay on the PCI card because > it's ATA 66. The problem is not with the card by the way, i've already > checked it out and everything works fine (modules are installed for 6.0) > plus i had it working before. At any rate, if anyone could suggest > something to change, or could point to a howto, that would be great. > Thanks. > > Jeff > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. > Linux not only doesn't prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, it asks you what caliber weapon you need to do so. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
