I have mine like this and it works, the only problem is that pressing F4
during win98 bootup doesn't load my old version of DOS, it just hangs
reading the HD, which may or may not be related the partition setup.
hdc1 /boot 55 MB
hdc2 /mnt/c 2 GIG DOS/Win partition
hdc3 swap 55 MB
hdc4 / the rest ot the drive
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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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