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Re: lilo.conf info please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James C. Bevier)
Fri Oct 25 23:14:14 1996
From: "James C. Bevier" <jbev@jbsys.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:34:37 -0600 (MDT)
In-Reply-To: <199610260256.WAA01095@sojurn.lns.pa.us> from "Mike Sangrey" at Oct 25, 96 10:56:11 pm
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> > I somehow wiped out my lilo.conf file during my RH 4.0 install.
> > I used to have an entry that would allow me to boot Win95 from
> > a second HD (/dev/hdb1). I thought it was using the chain.b
> > loader, but this does not work. LILO say no O/S on disk. Could
> > someone please provide this information again. I could not find
> > the old mail message that had this information.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jim Bevier
> > jbev@jbsys.com
> >
> > Current non-working entry:
> >
> > other=/dev/hdb1
> > loader=/boot/chain.b
> > label=win95
> > table=/dev/hdb
> >
> >
> This format is correct. Are you sure win95 is on /dev/hdb?
My BIOS allows me to set C: to any drive. I reset it to /dev/hdb1
and it works fine. There really is a Win95 system there. I changed
the loader to loader=/boot/any_d.b and now everything works? I thought
the doc said to use chain.b. Anybody know why?
Jim
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