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Re: LILO help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Tue Nov 3 03:39:35 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 23:35:20 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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John Mayson wrote:
>
> Here's another problem if mine that won't go away.
>
> I have two physical hard drives. One (hda) contains Linux. The other
> (hdc) contains Win95. I want to configure LILO to boot either. Here is
> my /etc/lilo.conf file...
<snip>
Due to brain-deadness of Windows 95, this will not work. It
will insist on booting off the MASTER drive of the first
IDE interface. Primary generally. In other words, if there
is an hda, then it must boot off that one.
Lots of things are possible in Linux, but not in Win95. For
instance, you cannot install all of Win 95 on Drive D: Note
that the reason is that the first bootable partition of the
first drive of the first interface is automatically drive C:
and it MUST boot off that one.
I think that plain MSDOS, v.6.22 and earlier, would allow you
to boot elsewhere, but definetely not Win95.
It is possible, however, to install a LOT of Win 95 onto other
drives, D: for instance, but not all of it. Must boot off C:
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