by Dmitri Litvintse » Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:00:00
I may expect that the following might sound pretty stupid, pardon my
ignorance...
Is it possible at all to boot into DOS partition resided on the second
HD?
That is I have linux partition on /dev/hda and DOS partition on
/dev/hdc.
I'm using LILO. I can (of course) boot into Linux but not into DOS.
thankx,
Dmitri Litvintsev
by steve.. » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00
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by Neil Kooze » Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:00
Most bios's can't access /dev/hdc at boot time. If this is the case withQuote:> Is it possible at all to boot into DOS partition resided on the second
> HD?
> That is I have linux partition on /dev/hda and DOS partition on
> /dev/hdc.
> I'm using LILO. I can (of course) boot into Linux but not into DOS.
Then you will need a section like this in lilo.conf:
other = /dev/hdb1
label = dos
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
table = /dev/hdb
If you bios can access hdc, I presume 0x82 can be used in place of 0x81 in
the above lines.
Neil.
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Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to have
two bootable dos partitions on the same disk?
The problem I am running into is as follows:
/dev/hda1 dos1
/dev/hda2 dos2
/dev/hdb1 linux
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1) dos1 will boot if the active flag is set for hda1 and
the active flag for hda2 is set or unset
2) dos2 will only boot if the active flag for hda1 is unset
and the active flag for hda2 is set
3) linux has no problem booting in either of these situations
Is there anyway to set the active flag during boot time through
lilo (or something) or
is my only possible solution to separate the dos partitions
onto separate drives. If the active flag is set for both hda1
and hda2 and I try to boot dos2 the system hangs; it gets past
the lilo prompt but hags during the "starting MSDOS . . ."
message (I think its having problems determining what logical
drives there are, i.e., what's c, what's d.
Thanks,
Charlie Chen
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Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to have
two bootable dos partitions on the same disk?
The problem I am running into is as follows:
/dev/hda1 dos1
/dev/hda2 dos2
/dev/hdb1 linux
/dev/hdb2 linux swap
1) dos1 will boot if the active flag is set for hda1 and
the active flag for hda2 is set or unset
2) dos2 will only boot if the active flag for hda1 is unset
and the active flag for hda2 is set
3) linux has no problem booting in either of these situations
Is there anyway to set the active flag during boot time through
lilo (or something) or
is my only possible solution to separate the dos partitions
onto separate drives. If the active flag is set for both hda1
and hda2 and I try to boot dos2 the system hangs; it gets past
the lilo prompt but hags during the "starting MSDOS . . ."
message (I think its having problems determining what logical
drives there are, i.e., what's c, what's d.
Thanks,
Charlie Chen
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