LILO

RySk8er30 · 03-07-2006, 08:26 PM

I had one hard drive in my computer with Linux installed. I removed that hard drive and installed a different one. One that new hard drive, I installed Windows. I put the old hard drive back in (as a master) along side the new one (as a slave). I can boot to Linux fine. How can I edit lilo to boot to windows (as an option). I thought I could add an entry with the line boot=/dev/hdd1, but that didn't work. I received the error "Error loading operating system". Any ideas? /dev/hdd1 is the right partition. I also tried /dev/hdd, but that didn't work either.

Ryan

pljvaldez · 03-07-2006, 08:40 PM

from linux type fdisk -l which should show you all the drives and partitions. If you only have two drives, it's probably /dev/hdb1.

I believe in lilo the proper format is other=/dev/hdb1 instead of "boot="

RySk8er30 · 03-07-2006, 08:47 PM

I'm sorry, here is my lilo.conf file...

Code:

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

default="linux"
boot=/dev/hdc
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
prompt
nowarn
timeout=10
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label="linux"
        root=/dev/hdc1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="resume=/dev/hdc5 splash=silent"
        vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label="linux_custom"
        root=/dev/hdc1
        initrd=/boot/customKernel
        append="resume=/dev/hdc5 splash=silent"
        vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label="linux-nonfb"
        root=/dev/hdc1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="resume=/dev/hdc5"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label="failsafe"
        root=/dev/hdc1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="failsafe resume=/dev/hdc5"
other=/dev/hdd1
        label="windows"

Here is fdisk -l

Code:

Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *           1        2662    21382483+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2            2663        9729    56765677+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5            2663        2865     1630566   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdc6            2866        9729    55135048+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdd: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *           1        2433    19543041    7  HPFS/NTFS

Could it be that my boot.ini file is screwed up because I installed Windows with the hard drive in by itself (as a master) and now it is a slave?

pljvaldez · 03-07-2006, 08:58 PM

That might be. I feel like I read that somewhere.... Hmmm...

Nylex · 03-08-2006, 02:25 AM

Don't know if it makes a difference, but my LILO entry for Windows has an additional line:

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

RySk8er30 · 03-12-2006, 11:42 AM

I couldn't seem to find an answer via lilo. I did some research on the web and found some good solutions for using Grub. You have to map your hard drive as the primary drive using grub. Here is my /boot/grub/menu.lst file...

title windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

If anyone has questions, let me know.