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RE: LILO and /dev/hdb DOS bootable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richardson,Anthony)
Tue Oct 27 19:17:02 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:12:00 -0500
From: "Richardson,Anthony" <ARichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
To: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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I don't think it is possible to boot DOS from other than
the first ide drive (hda). You cap use LILO's map-drive
option to swap the first two drives so that when you
boot DOS the second drive becomes the first.
Add
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
to your DOS lilo.conf stanza.
Tony
On Tuesday, October 27, 1998 6:47 PM, redhat-list
[SMTP:redhat-list@redhat.com] wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> I just installed Redhat 5.1 on IDE drive with temporary IDE CD
> drive.
> After installation, I got rid of CD and installed a second disk drive
> /dev/hdb. Now I would like to type "dos" at the LILO prompt. I
> added
> lines in lilo.conf like so:
>
> other=/dev/hdb1
> label=dos
>
> When trying to boot from /dev/hdb in DOS, I had a message "no
> system
> disk" and it returns to LILO prompt.
>
> Thanks for helping me, you Linux Guru!
>
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