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boot=/dev/hda
append="hda=6136,16,63 hdb=3146,16,63 hdc=1654,16,63"
linear
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda1

other=/dev/hdb1
        label=win
        table=/dev/hdb

Linux loads correctly (I'm using it now to write this message.).
When I choose "win" at the LILO: prompt, I get this message:

Invalid system disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key

I have tested the Windows98 install by removing my Linux drive, making the
Windows98 drive the primary, and only, disk on the IDE chain, and
rebooting.  Windows98 boots just fine.  In other words, this disk is a
valid system disk, otherwise it would not boot at this point.

Now what really gets me, this configuration worked just fine under RedHat
5.1.

Does anyone have any ideas why this doesn't work?

Thanks,

Craig

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Quote:>I've just installed RedHat 6.1 over my RedHat 5.1 installation by
>formatting my primary hard drive (/dev/hda) and installing from scratch.  I
>have somehow lost access to my Windows98 install on my secondary hard drive
>(/dev/hdb).  Here is my lilo.conf:

>boot=/dev/hda
>append="hda=6136,16,63 hdb=3146,16,63 hdc=1654,16,63"
>linear
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>default=linux

>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
>    label=linux
>    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
>    read-only
>    root=/dev/hda1
>ke
>other=/dev/hdb1
>    label=win
>    table=/dev/hdb

>Linux loads correctly (I'm using it now to write this message.).
>When I choose "win" at the LILO: prompt, I get this message:

>Invalid system disk
>Replace the disk, and then press any key

>I have tested the Windows98 install by removing my Linux drive, making the
>Windows98 drive the primary, and only, disk on the IDE chain, and
>rebooting.  Windows98 boots just fine.  In other words, this disk is a
>valid system disk, otherwise it would not boot at this point.

>Now what really gets me, this configuration worked just fine under RedHat
>5.1.

>Does anyone have any ideas why this doesn't work?

Workaround: Make sure you have a good rescue floppy set, and the
contents of your /etc/fstab written down.  Swap the drive jumpers,
making the Windows drive primary master (which you know works)
and the Linux drive primary slave.

Then boot with your rescue floppy, manually mount your Linux
partition with /etc on it, edit fstab and lilo.conf to change
the hda to hdb and vice-versa, and rerun lilo.  I run this
configuration (Win98 on hda, Linux on hdb, LILO on MBR of
hda) and it works fine, with the small caveat that a Windows
reinstall (which I end up doing every few months, sigh) wipes
LILO off the MBR, forcing me to boot from a floppy and rerun
lilo to put it back.

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