Since this will be a long post I <snip>ped everything previous.
I will post my IDE chain and my /etc/lilo.conf file and hopefully that will
help everyone with determining what exactly I'm what I'm missing. ;)
Primary IDE Master: 6.4 GIG EIDE Harddrive (aka hda)
3 partitions C:, E:, and F: in Windoze
Primary IDE Slave: Iomega Zip 100 MB (I keep a disk in there due to the
fact that certain times there's one expected, this alleviates confusion.)
This shows up as D: in Windoze.
Secondary IDE Master: 20.0 GIG EIDE Harddrive (aka hdc)
4 Partitions
/ (aka hdc1)
Swap (aka hdc5)
/usr (aka hdc6)
/home (aka hdc7)
Secondary IDE Slave: Plexwriter CD-RW
Drive G: in Windoze
My motherboard/BIOS does not support CD-ROM booting.
AFAIK, hda is the primary boot device. I will double check my BIOS after
sending this, but I believe that my BIOS doesn't have a method of adding
the second harddrive (hdc) to the boot chain, only the floppy drive or the
Primary IDE Master.
Below is my /etc/lilo.conf file. One note about it, when I installed Linux,
I setup a password with LILO. Now that I think about it, it never asked me
for the password upon boot. I've added #comments below, these comments are
not actually part of the file, I added them for this post.
/etc/lilo.conf
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
password=************** # I'm not telling. ;)
boot=/dev/hda # If I understand correctly this should be telling LILO to
boot off hda
map=/boot/map # If I understand correctly this is where LILO stores the
info on where each OS is and how to boot it
install=/boot/boot.b # I'm not sure I understand this line
vga=791 # So it looks nicer when it boots
default=linux # This is the default OS for my LILO configuration, it will
boot the image labeled as "linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt # This loads my keyboard configuration
lba32 # This helps LILO (or is it Linux) work with my BIOS to see my hard
drives correctly
prompt # This allows me to choose which OS to load when I start my computer
timeout=50 # If I don't choose, LILO loads the default after 5 seconds
message=/boot/message # LILO displays the text of this file upon starting
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw # I don't understand this line either, but I
believe this defines the look of the LILO prompt
# The last section defines the bootable OSes, defines their location, and
gives each one a name
image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc1
append=" mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide=floppy"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-up
root=/dev/hdc1
append=" mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-floppy"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hdc1
append=" mem=128M hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-floppy failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
That should do it. I appreciate everyone helping me sort this out.
Ivan.
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