At 10:26 AM 5/14/1999 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi !
>
>First I am very sorry to post this here. Is there a better place
>please let me know. The problem is with LILO.
>
>I have two harddisks.
>
>Disk 1: 270MB Disk 2: 811MB
>Linux (Redhat 5.2) Win 95
>CHS = 944/14/40 1647/16/63
>
>
>The system has a bios limitation 504MB. LILO is installed in the
>MBR of Disk 1 (270 MB). Now if configure any one of them as first
>hard disk, then the respective operating system boots fine. But for
>the above configuration LILO doesn't boot Win95 from the second
>harddisk. I tried with the linear option as well. But no luck. LILO
>reports non system disk. I can't configure the Linux Harddisk as
>second disk since it is a old one, I am not even sure of whether it
>has any option for it.
>
>With almost similar kind of disks (270MB and 1.2GB) with Linux as
>second hard disk(1.2GB) I had LILO booting the second hardisk. But in
>that system linux is in the second harddisk.
>
>What should I do to get LILO boot WIN95 from the second hard disk.
>
>
>%
>% PS: At present I am not in this list. So please cc your replies
>% to me.
>%
>
>TIA.
>
>
>Jag
>
Your problem rang a bell - I remembered reading about it and saving the
e-mail. What you have to do is fake out Windows so it thinks it is
booting off the first hard drive. This is a limit of DOS and Windows
95/98, It has to boot off the first hard drive! The LILO config
below shows how to fake out MS so that it thinks it is on the first
drive... (Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
alias=l
other=/dev/hdb1
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x83
map-drive=0x82
to=0x80
map-drive=0x83
to=0x82
label=dos
alias=win95
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.31
label=old
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
alias=lo
What you probably want to boot Windows from the second disk is an
entry like this...
other=/dev/hdb1
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
label=dos
alias=win95
The lilo docs go into this in a lot more detail...
Good luck!
Mikkel
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