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Re: LILO help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 3 15:30:19 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 15:28:07 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Ramon Gandia wrote:
> 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.
I can boot W95 off my second drive using LILO.
Must be something else wrong.
>
>
> 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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