lilo

[sfielding7]

OH no

lilo goes on the IDE drive boot goes on scsi
remember your computer must have a common first drive to dual boot
the only other way is to use a boot floppy to tell the system where to 
go to boot

OK

Cyber Source wrote:

>Ok, here's one for ya....
>I am redoing my system, just got a new scsi hard drive and installed
>RedHat 8 on it. I also have an existing windows xp drive (on ide drive)
>that I used to dual boot with. When connected to the new system, I could
>not successfully install lilo because it would take the ide drive as the
>first drive and the scsi drive after. I read the man page on lilo and
>found that the syntax of "disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80" could be added to
>lilo.conf to tell the system that this is the first drive in the system,
>even with an ide at hda. That worked fine and then successfully
>installed lilo, which booted Linux fine. However, I cannot figure out
>how to get it to dual boot now. I use to use the syntax of
>"map-drive=0x80 to=0x82 map-drive=0x82 to=0x80" but that no longer
>works. That use to work with the drive connected on as hde1 (I have a
>motherboard with additional ATA controllers). I tried connecting it as
>hda to simplify things but that didn't work either. Anyone have any
>experience with this one?
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