🚀 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?

Yes,

I also had the samen problem
I've got two hard disks, and wanted to run both Win98 and linux.
This is the way:
First of all, you install Windows on a natural way. After that installation,
you install linux on any other harddisk partition you like, but SKIP the
lilo installation. instead, create a bootdisk.
after this, your computer will only start windows, and linux by bootdisk.
Goto linux, and copy the kernel to the windows partition using mount.
Goto windows, and there is de kernel from linux!
In windows, you need to copy the file loadlin.exe from the Cd-Rom of linux.
Put this file in the same dir.
Then you have to make some alterations to your system files: Msdos.sys,
config.sys and autoexec.bat.
With this file i will send you mines.
After you created the bootmenu in the config.sys file, you will be able to
boot both OS.
questions? Email me

Mark

Steven Sagaert <steven.sagaert@tvd.be> schreef in berichtnieuws
5X4l4.2456$P96.45477@news.chello.be...
> 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?
>
>