hi all,

Whilst using lilo to boot in linux I have got two hard disks. The second largest of the two holds my windows xp pro setup. LILO is on the MBRecord and I need to find a program that will probe the hard disk from linux to allow me to see what sector the boot loader is at on the second disk. I can then reference this in lilo.conf which is obviously pointing to the wrong place at the moment as I get NTLDR missing which is essentially "Cannot find the boot loader".

Any help much appreciated as I have to keep walking down to the library to use the internet as I can only access the internet through xp at the moment!!

Rob

Did you install LILO to the MBR of the second hard disks, and then point NTLDR to the second hard disk?

not sure this is what I have got from lilo -tgeom

BIOS reports 2 hd's

bios=0x80, cyl=1023, heads=255, sectors=63 vol -id 10EFA5F8
(60.02gb 117,231,408 sectors) LBA32 Supported (EDD Bios)

bios=0x81, cyl=1023, heads=255, sectors=63 vol -id 003D003D
(20.02gb 39,102,336 sectors) LBA32 Supported (EDD Bios)

hold on theres more It will just take a few minutes to type it!!!!

I also get the o/p =

Added Linux *

<dev=0xe1,hd=254,cyl=104,sct=74>
"ro root=341 ramdisk=0 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

it then goes on to check options: " "

also a snippet just below saying Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader CHAIN

if you think there will be anything else relevant from under there then I will type it also.

the next bit I think you will need to know to answer the question is -

Added XP

<dev=0xe1,hd=254,cyl=104,sct=103>

it says that the boot file and the map file have *NOT* been altered.

This says to me by the device reference that I have got lilo looking to the same device for the boot loader 0xe1. it also is saying that it should go to sector 103 on the same disk for the boot loader for XP.

Can you shed any light on this??

I have just noticed some info saying

bios_dev: device=301
lookup_dev: number=300

Sorry not quite formatted like that but I think you will get the jist because corresponding to that at the bottom of the print out is a small table -

BIOS VOL ID DEVICE
80 10EFA5F8 300
81 003D003D 340

I can safely say that I have the xp on the 60gb drive and linux on the 20gb one

I live on the A64 as well btw. in York if thats what you mean at the side with your name.

If you do its nice to see someone in the forum.

Thanks again

Rob