The problem is that Windows will only boot from a primary partition on
the first hard drive. Windows does not play well with other OSs - it
expectes to be the only OS on the drive. You can try the modifications
I made to your lilo.conf. I have not tried them with Windows 95/98, but
they used to work with Windows 3.1, and DOS.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, 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
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
>
>
Let me know if it works for you. If not, then you will have to do as
someone else sujested, and swap the drives.
Mikkel
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