A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > From what I can tell from the LILO documentation, LILO can't boot from > the slave drive on the primary IDE controller. Is this correct?
Nope. Until just recently I did this for 18 months; I had Win95 on /dev/hda, with my Debian root on /dev/hdb, and /home on /dev/sda. Worked perfect. > I don't want to try the linear option because I may need to boot from a > floppy in the future. Specifying > > disk = /dev/hdb > bios = 0x81 > > did not make the HD bootable. > > boot.b, vmlinuz, and everything else is properly located in /boot on > hdb1 > > my bios supports a D drive boot, and the LI error says it's geometry or > you haven't written a new boot.b and I've tried both. > > Any input greatly appreciated! How about a lilo.conf that I used to dual-boot Win9x/Linux? Note that I'm going by memory, but it should work. boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot.b delay=20 map=/boot/map image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13 label=2.2.13 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
