Also, don't forget to log in as root and run LILO once you've made
your changes.
/mario
>Yes, /dev/hdb1 is the correct syntax, not /dev/hdb . Remember,
>you're trying to tell LILO to boot from a specific partition, not
>the whole disk. I hope that makes sense.
>
>/mario
>
>>btt wrote:
>>>Hello.
>>>
>>>I have inside my machine two hard drives. One is Gentoo and one is
>>>Windows ME.
>>>
>>>/dev/hda is the gentoo, ata primary
>>>/dev/hdb is the window, ata secondary
>>>
>>>as i understand the man lilo.conf page, in order to have lilo boot
>>>the windows drive, i need something like this:
>>>
>>>other=/dev/hdb
>>> label=win
>>>
>>>and that should do it. But it doesn't do it. When I select the win
>>>option in lilo, it just acts as if lilo re-loads (ie, the
>>>countdown restarts, etc.). I remember using this method to dual
>>>boot linux and freebsd in the same manner, but with windows it
>>>obviously doesn't work.
>>>
>>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>
>>It has been a while since I have dual booted, and I may not
>>remember this correctly, but shouldn't that read "other=/dev/hdb1" ?
>>
>> Jeff
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