Re: problem booting win95 under LILO (linux) from the second hard disk

[ahn@indigo2.rad.bgsm.edu (Dave Ahn)]

> On Monday, 14th October 1996, Hiralal Agrawal wrote:
> 
> > Does any one know what might be causing the failure in [having Windows
> > 95 on the primary partition and Linux on the secondary partition]?
> 
> Have you checked out the Linux HOWTO index at
> 
>      http://www.ssc.com/linux/howto.html
> 
> In the "mini-HOWTO" section are a number of documented multiboot 
> configurations; the one entitled "Linux Linux+Win95 mini-HOWTO"
> by Jonathan Katz sounds like it'd be on target for you. Its URL is
> 
>      http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95
> 
> The only piece of advice that I can immediately offer is to make sure 
> that your LILO is in your root partition's superblock, and _not_ in the 
> Master Boot Record.

This will be ineffective if Hiralal wants to keep Linux on HDD-2.  LILO
must be installed on the boot drive, so unless he creates a small root
partition on HDD-1 (within the DOS 1024 cylinder limit), his only other
options are to use loadlin or install LILO into HDD-1's MBR.

Dave.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Christian.
> -- 
> Christian Carey (ccarey@CapAccess.ORG) +1 301 431 0053
> 


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