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LILO-2 drives - Win 98 does not boot

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by mark willmer

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With two disk drives in the PC, Linux on the master, Windows '98 on slave. Linux boots with out a problem. Windows '98 hangs - doesn't even start to load. Any suggestions?

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by lo

Hi - Not real sure about this but ... I think Win 98 wants to be on the master. It (and other MS products) boot drive 0 I think. I had a Win 98, put Linux on the slave and worked find. Only problem was that I couldn't remove the slave as LILO was on there and Win 98 wouldn't boot without LILO first. Did you install both from scratch? If you had Linux and installed Win 98, try installing Win 98 on drive 0, then Linux. The docs with your Linux version should indicate correct and compatible configurations (check with mfg on-line if you don't have hardcopy manuals). I think docs are usually on the CD, Netscape or IE.

by monty_burns

Hmm...I need a little more info to be sure, but it sounds like something in your /etc/lilo.conf is configured wrong. try editing it and making sure that the appropriate partition is listed for booting windows (hdb1 or hdc1 from the sound of your setup) after saving the file run /sbin/lilo and it should work. You might have to specify the drive that you have lilo installed on when you run it: /sbin/lilo -b hda

by mark willmer

Thanks for the repsonse. I still was having problems, needing to re-map the drives for the bios. Key factor that was forgotten - run the lilo command from sbin (sorry - my first day with lilo - but it made sense after I thought about it!).

by zeus_ru

Put this in yor lilo.conf file

**************************
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12
label=Linux
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12.img
read-only
other = /dev/hdb
label = Windows
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
**************************
change hdb to hdc or hdd depending on what is you second disk having Window a secondary on the master IDE (hdb), The primary on the secondary IDE (hdc) or the secondary on the secondary IDE (hdd)

by mark willmer

Thanks, the re-mapping of the drives was what I was missing (and running the LILO command after updating the config file helped too!).

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