Help, please: How to configure LILO for Linux on SCSI, Win95 on IDE.

Help, please: How to configure LILO for Linux on SCSI, Win95 on IDE.

Post by Alan Vlac » Mon, 18 May 1998 04:00:00



Hello:

I've been using RedHat 5.0 happily for some time now.
Sadly, I must now add a second hard disk with Win95.

Linux partitions are on the SCSI disk (SCSI ID 0), while Windoze95 is
preloaded on the (new) IDE disk.

Tried adding a stanza (other=/dev/hda1 ...) for the Win95 drive to
/etc/lilo.conf, but when I reboot, the reboot process just goes in
circles.  I should've known something would go wrong; lilo complained
that /dev/sda wasn't on the `first' disk.   (I would have given SCSI
greater precedence over IDE myself.)

Just recovering from this took a couple of hours:  documentation on
rescue mode is awfully sketchy.

So I've looked and looked (including the mini-HOWTO on Linux+Win95), but
I don't see anything that really addresses this particular
configuration.

Please, please help, and please don't scream at me if the answer is in
some ``obvious'' place.

Thanks,
--Alan Vlach

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1. Configuring LILO to boot Win95 on additional SCSI drive, Primary is IDE?

Greetings,

I am currently dual booting RedHat 5.1 and Windows 98 with no problems.
I have an IDE drive partitioned with the two operating systems.  I've
been having trouble with some of the kids games and Windows98 so I've
decided to install a second drive (SCSI) with Windows95.  I have
installed it and can boot no problem when I set my BIOS to boot SCSI.
If I try to use LILO and boot Windows 95 I get the following error
"Invalid system disk, Replace the disk and then press any key"

Here's my lilo.confboot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
other=/dev/hda1
        label=win98
        table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/sda1
        label=win95
        table=/dev/sda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda5
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.34-0.6.img
        read-only

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Rod

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