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Old 02-05-2004, 08:32 AM   #1
MaleWithBrains
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LILO Setup help ... DOS-Linux-Win


I had been trying to setup a 3 system boot for couple hours.... plenty Googling plenty searches later I have the Lilo menu going on... problem is when I want to boot to DOS, i get a msg telling me C:\IBMDOS.COM doesn't exist System Halted

here is the relevant part of my Lilo.conf

other=/dev/hda2
label=Windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hda1
label=DOS
table=/dev/hda

and F-stab :

# Dynamic entries
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0

Before installing Linux I had allready installed DOS and Win, and was able to boot into the DOS part, properly formatted and installed DOS. Using PQ Magic Boot Mngr I wasn't able to boot into Linux, so wrote over with Lilo. after messing with Lilo a bit.... I can boot Windows-Linux but not DOS,

anybody can help me with getting all 3 operational ? Thanx for all help
 
Old 02-05-2004, 09:02 AM   #2
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I had the same thing on my system. It says something like
c>command.com not found, give the full path to command.com.
I said e:\command.com
and my dos system was up.
So, I have a 3-system PC, two of them booting "normally" and the third one has to receive e:\command.com
 
Old 02-05-2004, 09:09 AM   #3
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my problem seems to be deeper than that, because my System HANGS, noting to input.... plus when I boot in with a Floppy i tried all letters and apart from A:\ I get an Invalid drive
 
Old 02-06-2004, 02:20 AM   #4
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I think I have zeroed in on the problem... Neither DOS nor Windows support 2 visible primary partitions so one of my drives get hidden

is there a way to Hide Hda2 and Unhide hda1 when I want to boot to DOS ?
 
Old 02-06-2004, 07:29 AM   #5
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Not sure. On my system I have three primary partitions. Two of them are visible by Dos (Win 98 emergency floppy) and all three are visible by Win2000. And of course / and /home are visible only by Linux.
 
  


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