Re: [LI] [binand@bombay.retortsoft.com: Problems with dual boot]

[Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar.daithankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

 The only thing I can suggest is to connect your SCSI drive as primary master
and IDE as primary slave. I think windows cannot boot from slaves if there are
any other disks present. The idea of 'image=/dev/sda' is not going to work, as
it specifies a disk rather than partition.

 So try to connect windows disk as master. Another example of M$ monopolistic
attitude.

Bye
  Shridhar

Binand Raj S. wrote:

> boot=/dev/hda
> image=/dev/sda1
> label=dos
>
> Then I ran lilo, and it said added linux and dos. So I rebooted from
> the IDE disk, and typed dos at the lilo prompt, only to get the error
> "unexpected EOF". Linux was OK.
>
> So I tried boot=/dev/sda.
>
> When I rebooted, this time from the SCSI disk, it came upto LI and stopped.
>
> By this time I was about to give up, so I booted from a Windows 98
> bootable floppy and did an fdisk /mbr. And it overwrote the MBR of my
> IDE disk - not the SCSI disk.
>
> I opened my PC, disconnected the IDE disk, and then booted from Windows 98
> floppy, and did another fdisk /mbr. Thus, fortunately, I could have both
> OSes without reinstalling either.
>



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