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by **Phil Reynol** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

I know that LILO can boot Linux from a second hard drive, but can it boot
Windows from one? I ask because I currently have a drive bootable with each
operating system, and would like, if possible, to keep Windows entirely on
the slave (/dev/hdb1). All attempts so far have given "Invalid system disk"
when trying to boot Windows.

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Phil Reynolds

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by **Svend Olaf Mikkels** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

>I know that LILO can boot Linux from a second hard drive, but can it boot
>Windows from one? I ask because I currently have a drive bootable with each
>operating system, and would like, if possible, to keep Windows entirely on
>the slave (/dev/hdb1). All attempts so far have given "Invalid system disk"
>when trying to boot Windows.

If no FAT partitions are on hda, you can copy the bootsector from
/dev/hdb1 to the file /boot/bootsect.b1 with dd, change the embedded
disk number from 0x80 to 0x81 and add to lilo.conf:

other=/boot/bootsect.b1
label=win

For FAT16 the disk number is at offset 36, for FAT32 it is at offset
64.

Or copy http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/bootdos.bin to /boot/bootdos.bin
and add to lilo.conf:

other=/boot/bootdos.bin
label=win

Still if no FAT partitions are on hda. This will boot the first
primary FAT partition found.

Another solution which I did not test recently is this:

other=/dev/hdb1
label=win
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
table=/dev/hdb
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Svend Olaf

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LILO - possible to boot Win95 from /dev/hdb?

LILO - possible to boot Win95 from /dev/hdb?

LILO - possible to boot Win95 from /dev/hdb?