On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 05:20 PM, Neil Kittipalo wrote:
> On Monday 18 November 2002 11:16 pm, you wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 04:39 PM, Mario Lombardo wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes... that makes sense. I tried that and lilo gives the Loading
>> win...
>> message then stops. It doesn't freeze as I can't reboot with the three
>> finger salute. It isn't that big of a deal; I've been switching in the
>> bios for now and don't really spend that much time in windows anyway,
>> but it'd be nice to know what's going on.
>>
> I thought that 95, 98, ME etc insisted on being on the active primary
> partition of the FIRST physical hard disk. That would be /dev/hda.
> Did you install windows on hda and then reconnect it as hdb? I don't
> think
> this will work. I did this once a long time ago, and if I remember you
> re-map
> the drives. It all in the lilo/lilo.conf man pages and docs.
> I THINK it would something like this....
That is exactly what I did. When I was installing windows I remembered
all the scary stories about it overwiting stuff so I disconnected my
other drive to be on the safe side!
The lilo.conf commands worked perfectly. Thanks very much.
> other = /dev/hdb1
> label = win
> map-drive=0x80
> to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81
> to=0x80
>
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