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

[Masood Ahmed Khan <masood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just do 
1. insert line after boot=<device> and type linear on this line in
lilo.conf file
2. run lilo
3. reboot

It works for me in similar situatons.
				Masood




On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> 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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