[newbie] dual boot with lilo problem
I have linux on one hard drive(the master drive) and win95(the slave) on another. I set up lilo to let me choose between the two systems, but when I select win95, win95 claims there is a non-system disk in the floppy drive and then it hangs up. There isn't any non-system disk there, so what to do? At present, I switch between the two by changing BIOS. I am considering this solution: 1. Reinstall linux, putting the boot stuff on the win95 hard drive. Change this drive to the master. 2. All the rest of linux goes on its own hard drive which becomes the slave. So, tell me somebody, will this work? I will do it when I get a copy of Linux Mandrake 6.0. adios, STeve W _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] dual boot with lilo problem
At 06:53 21/05/99 -0700, you wrote: I have linux on one hard drive(the master drive) and win95(the slave) on another. I set up lilo to let me choose between the two systems, but when I select win95, win95 claims there is a non-system disk in the floppy drive and then it hangs up. There isn't any non-system disk there, so what to do? At present, I switch between the two by changing BIOS. I am considering this solution: 1. Reinstall linux, putting the boot stuff on the win95 hard drive. Change this drive to the master. 2. All the rest of linux goes on its own hard drive which becomes the slave. So, tell me somebody, will this work? I will do it when I get a copy of Linux Mandrake 6.0. Does you bios have the boot order "a:c:scsi" ? - hence the floppy error. I think that Wintendo will only run off the first IDE drive, Linux (thanks to lilo) can be run from pretty much anywhere (within the 1024 cycls limit) Personally I would have windoze (not that I have that at home any more) on the master drive with lilo on it's mbr giving the option of a linux boot from another drive. just my 2p ttfn nick@nexnix
Re: [newbie] dual boot with lilo problem
1. Reinstall linux, putting the boot stuff on the win95 hard drive. Change this drive to the master. 2. All the rest of linux goes on its own hard drive which becomes the slave. So, tell me somebody, will this work? I will do it when I get a copy of Linux Mandrake 6.0. adios, STeve W _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com Sounds like your lilo.conf is trying to start Win95 from floppy drive? First of all install Win95(98), then Linux. When installing Linux tell to lilo that it should be installed on master boot record (meaning on the same disk as win95(98).) BTW Every time you running Win setup, you have to rerun lilo, because setup rewrites all the stuff! There is no difference between slave and master. That's a physical separation for BIOS. For Linux it all depends on lilo configuration. Right now have a look on lilo.conf (/etc/lilo.conf). There should be under Linux booting part like: hdb/boot/vmlinuz or something. If so, your Win partition resides on hda partition. So you have to change it properly... and then run just ./lilo from command line Kalju Rtli Webmaster Prnu Town Government Board of Development +37 244 313 34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Somebody told me to get a life Where I can download that?
Re: [newbie] dual boot with lilo problem
Steve Winston wrote: I have linux on one hard drive(the master drive) and win95(the slave) on another. I set up lilo to let me choose between the two systems, but when I select win95, win95 claims there is a non-system disk in the floppy drive and then it hangs up. There isn't any non-system disk there, so what to do? At present, I switch between the two by changing BIOS. I am considering this solution: 1. Reinstall linux, putting the boot stuff on the win95 hard drive. Change this drive to the master. 2. All the rest of linux goes on its own hard drive which becomes the slave. So, tell me somebody, will this work? I will do it when I get a copy of Linux Mandrake 6.0. adios, STeve W Steve: Windoze has to be on the First Partition of the first drive, I found this out when I was running OS/2 Warp. What you need to do therefore, is probably just switch the drives around, make the windoze partition on the master. You can still put lilo (or BootMaster from Partition Magic) on the Boot Sector of this drive. Andre
