The quick and easy answer is to make your Windows HD the master, and
your linux HD as the slave...boot from a boot disk, at that point,
edit your lilo.conf file, run "lilo" and try again.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:28:01 -0500, Reuben D Budiardja wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm having a problem configuring my Lilo to work correctly (I'm running
>RedHat Linux 6.2).
>I have 2 hard drive,
>Hard drive a= 4 GB, Linux RedHat 6.2
>Hard drive b = 20 GB, the first 6 GB is windows 98.
>
>What I want is to be able to select whether to boot linux or dos. Now, when
>I use Hd b as a master, I can boot windows perfectly fine. But when I use
>Hd a as the master drive, and try to use LILO to do the booting, I cannot
>boot my windows (it can boot my linux just fine).
>It says "Invalid system disk.... ".
>
>My lilo.conf is included below. I'm preety sure I correctly put the correct
>device name in my lilo.conf (/dev/hdb1) for my windows OS. To make sure
>that, I can even put /dev/hdb1/ in my fstab, and mount it, and I can see
>all the directories in my Hd b.
>
>Any help on this will be truly appreciated.
>Thanks.
>Reuben D. Budiardja
>
>------------------------------------ LILO.CONF ------------------
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=100
>default=linux
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda3
>
>other=/dev/hdb1
> label=dos
>
>
>
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