Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

[Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, matthschulz wrote:

>On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> 
>> >> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides
>> >> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for Debian. The setup
>> >> installed a MBR on hdc, but my BIOS only supports booting from
>> >> hda. Is there a way to install lilo in the MBR on hda and have
>> >> it boot linux from hdc1?
>> >> 
>> >lilo.conf: change the boot=/dev/hdc into boot=/dev/hda
>> >image=/dev/hdc1 should be already there and it is fine.
>> >and an option other=/dev/hda1 is needed for booting the other os.
>> 
>> I tried that, but LILO hangs with LI-. I did run lilo to update
>> the MBR - several times. In lilo.conf I have:
[...]
>What does lilo say when You run it?

Nothing unusual:

[root@minerva] ~>lilo -v
LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /vmlinuz
Added Linux (alias lnx) *
Boot other: /dev/hda1, loader /boot/chain.b
Added Windows (alias win)
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.


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Philip Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>