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I am dualbooting and I have two harddrives one for each OS. Both contain native installs.
Problem: I want to be able to boot win98 from LILO.
hda is the linux drive- RedHat 6.2 - I believe that lilo is written on the MBR hda
hdb is the win98 drive
I know that windows shouldn't be able to boot from hdb (if say hda was taking a nap) however my bios rocks and gives me a menu where I can pick the boot drive at startup. This is, however, a problem when I am doing the 3 reboots necessary to get win98 to do anything interesting. I'd really like to be able to boot win98 from LILO.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is my lilo.conf-
boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 1200
compact
prompt
default = linux
vga = normal
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.###
label = linux
root = /dev/hda2
other = /dev/hdb1
table = /dev/hdb
label = win
I've already tried- other = /dev/hdb with the table line absent.
Distribution: Started out w/Redhat 6.0,7.3,then Suse 8.2 , 9.2 ,10.open suse , KNOPPIX 2.73 &5.1 & Puppy
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Howdy ,I have a similar yet different newbie question. On my simple box (a COMPAQ deskpro2000/133 with 32 meg ram ) and matrox millenium Vidcard. My Drives are<hda> Primary 1.2 gig (REDHAT-MANDRAKE 6.5 <redhat helios6.1 with "enhancements"-was installed by a TECH> Secondary drive 1.2 gig<HDB -if Iam correct> I installed SuSE 6.3 from CD-rom (auto install feature).
How does One access or try to BOOT-UP from the Secondary H-Drive in order to use the SuSE Software??? I know it sounds stupid ,but If it were a WINDOWS Machine I would go to "My Computer" and click on one of my Drives Icons. Is there any thing Similar to this in LINUX or am I desperate???
Well, you can mount the /dev/hdb (or whatever you determine it is) to any directory, and then access the files there. So, lets say you want to mount it on /mnt/suse then you would open up a terminal, and as root type:
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdbX /mnt/suse
Where ext3 is replaced with the filesystem you chose when you installed suse, and hdbX is the drive/partition you have SUSE installed to.
manifold, when the computer boots up, the BIOS assigns numbers to the drives that it finds. If it finds that a drive is connected to primary master, it gives it the hexadecimal number 0x80. A primary slave drive would be 0x81.
The remapping lines switch those numbers around so it appears that the primary master is now the slave and the slave is the master. Windows likes being on the primary master drive and usually refuses to work if it's on any other drive. The remapping fools windows into thinking it is on primary master.
chilibowl, if you're using lilo to boot up red hat, you might be able to add two lines to it to get it to boot suse.
Edit your red hat /etc/lilo.conf file and add these two lines:
other=/dev/hdb?
label=suse
Replace the ' ? ' with the partition number where the boot loader for suse is installed. If it installed the boot loader on the MBR, then the line would look like this:
other=/dev/hdb
Don't forget to run /sbin/lilo after making any changes to /etc/lilo.conf.
Distribution: Started out w/Redhat 6.0,7.3,then Suse 8.2 , 9.2 ,10.open suse , KNOPPIX 2.73 &5.1 & Puppy
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didn,t try it yet, I installed Suse over my RedHat ,My primitve way of doing thingz.. Suse is OK (6.3) got it in a QUAKE3 The Arena Box Set @s an evaluation Disk. Ilike Yast (Yet Another System Tool). It still is a mysterious Linux GUI and oS (not as much colors as REDHAT -but OK ,NEXT Project put REDHAT 6.1 Helios back in place.
Hell to pay ,when you play with Linux..... ChIliBowl
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