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Old 08-07-2006, 05:44 PM   #1
obstinatesod
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Hi I have just installed alinux12.7 and I don't know how to configure lilo to recognise my second hard drive.
I have 2 hard drives the first has XP and now alinux the second has XP, although the boot loader shows 3 OS's in the menu two of them both go to the same XP
can anyone advise me on configuring this so I can boot to my other disk, it worked OK with GRUB but this distro doesn't seem to have a choice, thanks Adrian
 
Old 08-07-2006, 06:25 PM   #2
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Post your /etc/fstab and your /etc/lilo.conf. That would be a big help.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 01:37 AM   #3
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Hi sorry this is the /etc/lilo.conf the entry at the bottom was my attempt to add to the boot menu. This is how it works at the moment:

DOS boots to xp on first drive

linux boots to alinux

OS2 boot to the same xp on first drive and not to the one on the second drive.

image="/boot/fb-aLinux"
label="fb-aLinux"
root="/dev/hda5"
read-only

image=/boot/fb-Matrix
label="fb-Matrix"
root=/dev/hda5
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="vmlinuz"
root=/dev/hda5
read-only

image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
label="Linux_Compiled"
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
optional

other=/dev/hda1
label="NT"
image="/dev/hda1"
root="/dev/hda5"

other=/dev/hdb1
label="NT"

other=/dev/hdb2
label="NT"

other=/dev/hdb1
label="Adrian"
image="/dev/hdb1"
root="/dev/hda5"





# /etc/fstab: static file system information. Unix Aug-28-00
#
# The following is an example. Please see fstab(5) for further details.
# Please refer to mount(1) for a complete description of mount options.
#
# Format:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#
# dump(8) uses the <dump> field to determine which file systems need
# to be dumped. fsck(8) uses the <pass> column to determine which file
# systems need to be checked--the root file system should have a 1 in
# this field, other file systems a 2, and any file systems that should
# not be checked (such as MS-DOS or NFS file systems) a 0.

# This is for a reiser partition as root Unix system.
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 0 1

# You can just type "mount /mnt/hdxx" where "xx" is 1 of 4 below hard disks.
# To comment out, put "#" at the begining of the "/dev" or change /dev/hdxx.
#/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 0

# This is for a reiser4 partition as root Unix system.
#/dev/hda2 / reiser4 defaults 0 0

# This is for a ext3 partition as root Unix system.
#/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 0 0

# This is for a reiserfs partition as root Unix system.
#/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 0 0

# This is for a ext2 loop device as root Unix system.
#/dev/loop0 / ext2 defaults 0 0
# This is for a ext3 loop device as root Unix system.
#/dev/loop0 / ext3 defaults 0 0
# This is for a reiser loop device as root Unix system.
#/dev/loop0 / reiserfs defaults 0 0

# This is for a umsdos as root Unix system.
#/dev/hda1 / umsdos defaults 0 0

# This is a Unix "ext2" partition on /dev/hda3 etc.
#/dev/hda3 /mnt/linux ext2 defaults 0 2

# The "noauto" option indicates that the file system should not be mounted
# with "mount -a". "user" indicates that normal users are allowed to mount
# the file system.
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0

# Supermount options:
#floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,--,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
#cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom,--,ro,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

# If you have a ls-120 floppy drive, it could be on /dev/hda b c d etc.
#/dev/hdd /mnt/ls120 auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0

# NFS file system:
#linux01.gwdg.de:/suse/6.4/i386.de /mnt/nfs nfs defaults 0 0

# Mounted on startup:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0

# Unix98 devpts filesystem:
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=666 0 0

# Win95/98 fat16 or FAT32 partition:
#/dev/xxxx /DOS vfat defaults,user,umask=002,gid=100,unhide,quiet 0 0

# E.g. Reader Flash/Memory Card(s):
# Formatting: mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1; since there generally DOS disk(s).
#/dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,user 0 0

# This is the closest thing your going to get to hard-linked directorys w/o
# corruption since 'ln -d, -F, --directory' is non POSIX or just doesn't
# work well on file-system inodes other then ext2. Maybe no even that.
#/to/some/directory/not/populated /to/some/directory/thats/populated none bind 0 0

# The "sw" option indicates that the swap partition is to be activated
# with "swapon -a" or "swapoff -a" to deactivate it/them.
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0

# This is swap space on a partition.
#/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0

# This is a loop device swap file.
#/dev/loop1 none swap sw 0 0

# This is a swap file on the system.
/mnt/swap/swap.img none swap sw 0 0

# Devices detected in /mnt will follow next.

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