let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. your error might be any part of /etc/lilo.conf, so post the whole thing.
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:36, Aron Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:27, ed tharp wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: > > > > On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: > > > > > Hi... > > > > > I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... > > > > > > > > > > After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already > > > > > have and install it... > > > > > > > > > > I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... > > > > > > > > > > The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have win98, is > > > > > hdd1... > > > > > > > > > > What I did: > > > > > Configuration -> KDE -> System -> Boot Manager (LILO) > > > > > in the second page (OS), Add another SO: > > > > > boot disk = /dev/hdd1 > > > > > label = windows98 > > > > > Ok -> Ok... > > > > > even do that, the option to enter in windows98 does not show in LILO > > > > > menu... > > > > > > > > > > What I miss or what I did wrong ?? > > > > > > > > > > thanx in advance... > > > > > > > > > > Flávio Henrique > > > > Go to the command line and as root run lilo command: > > > > #su > > > > #lilo > > > > > > After type lilo I receive a following message: > > > Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed > > > Fatal: Not a number: "padrã" > > > and nothing happens... > > > > > > Flávio Henrique > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't > > > have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the > > > ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are > > > gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the > > > first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. > I seem to remember something about Win9x insisting that it be first > because of a nasty habit of rewriting the boot sector. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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