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hexadecimal
January 9th, 2004, 04:17 AM
im trying to dual boot rh9 and win98se
linux is my master on primary ide
win is master on secondary ide
this is what i tried to setup in my lilo.conf file




prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
restricted
password=linboot
message=/boot/message
lba32

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"

other=/dev/hdd
table=/dev/hdd
label=windows



when booting up linux ses my win hard drive is hdd
i hav on my system these drives setup



ide1
linux hdd (M)
zip 100 (S)

ide2
win hdd (M)
cdrom (S)

ide3
dvdrom (M)
cd burner (S)


when i reboot my lilo boot options are still just linux
what am i doing wrong or not have correct or didnt do

the stanza for the windows hdd came from Running Linux by oreily books

Striek
January 9th, 2004, 05:01 AM
Did you run the lilo program to tell it to rewrite the MBR?

Also, the secondary master under linux is /dev/hdc
And I'm not sure if Win98 can boot to a secondary hard drive. Maybe someone else here knows that.

Hope that helps.

hexadecimal
January 9th, 2004, 05:13 AM
thanx for the quick reply
and thanks il try all that

jinxy
January 9th, 2004, 06:02 AM
Win 98 should boot from the secondry drive but i think you will need to tell the bios to boot from that drive.