🚀 go-pugleaf

First of all, I think you're fucked.  

But I can feel your pain.  Lilo contains a bug, it gets confused when
you boot from scsi and have an disk attached to /dev/hdc.  It fails to
bootstrap the right thang(tm).

Now it's been a while since I read (and experienced that) that in the
manuals but maybe lilo has been patched somewhere (check your
distro-site).

/// Glenn

"hello"
--curt cobain

Nice crossposting btw

> 
> Hello,
> Originally i had one hard disk: a scsi disk. I installed red hat linux 6.1
> on it with lilo in the MBR. The /boot and / partition are formatted in ext2.
> Later on a second hard disk was added: an IDE disk as pimary master disk. I
> switched the boot order in the bios from scsi to IDE so that the ide disk
> would boot first to prevent windows overwriting my MBR on the scsi disk and
> installed windows 2000 on an NTFS5 partition on the IDE disk. Now i can boot
> both OSs by switching the boot order in the bios.
> 
> Now i tried to reconfigure both boot managers to boot the other OS. first i
> booted linux and adjusted /etc/lilo.conf to install lilo in the boot
> partition of Linux instead of the MBR (of the scsi disk) and added some
> lines to let lilo deal with the fact that the scsi disk is booted before the
> ide (this worked fine) and an entry for the windows 2000 partition (on
> /dev/hda1). I typed lilo at the prompt to update lilo and rebooted. I could
> still boot linux fine but when i tried  to boot windows 2000 i get a lot of
> '1' & '0' on the screen. I think the reason this doesn't work is that lilo
> can't deal with the NTFS partition. anybody disagrees on this?
> 
> second strategy: i made a copy of the linux boot sector with dd onto a FAT
> floppy, switched the booting order in the bios, booted windows 2000, copied
> the boot sector to f:\linuxbootsector (during setup windows 2000 took c:\
> to correspond to my linux boot partition, but i unmounted this later on),
> and then added f:\linuxbootsector="linux" to boot.ini. This doesn't work:
> windows 2000 complains that the bootsector is invalid. I also tried an ARC
> path (multi(0).....) pointing to the linux boot partition directly. This
> doesn't work either. I also tried with another ARC path:
> scsi(2)disk(6)rdisk(0)partition(1)\  because my scsi disk is on controller 2
> (according to the windows registry) and on id 6. This causes my machine to
> reboot when i select this option (so i reboot in the boot).
> 
> Anybody got an idea how i can get my system to multiboot with a boot
> manager?