[97425] in RedHat Linux List
Re: LILO help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Tue Nov 3 06:13:12 1998
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 05:13:45 -0600
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On Tue, 03 Nov 1998, John Mayson sniveled:
>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...
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda8
> read-only
>other=/dev/hdc1
> label=win95
> table=/dev/hdc
>
>When I try to boot win95 I get the error message "Invalid system disk".
>Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
If, as you say, there're only 2 physical drives, the 'Doze drive is
labelled wrong. Should be /dev/hdb as /dev/hdc would be physical drive
number 3. Also change the 'other=....' line to match.
--
I distinctly remember forgetting that.
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