lilo

[sfielding7]

OK

As I understand all operating systems look on the first partion of the 
first drive for the boot loader.
This file tells you what operating systems are loaded and the computer 
where you put them.
So normally C but A is available you have the boot loader normaly I put 
Windows in first and this goes on C.
The next operating system is added this adds one line to boot.ini and 
directs the computer to the location.for the next op sys

Now lets talk dirty;
drive partitioning and tweak UI
This is who I set up my drives  -2 one 20gig the other 40gigs
Drive one 40gig
C= 2gig holds boot and at this time W98
E=5gig holds program files for W98
F=5gig holds My Docs for W98
G=5gig holds video & jpg files
H=5gig holds other files normaly fresh down loads
I=2gig second op sys W2k or Linux
J=2gig second op sys programs
K=2gig second op sys My Docs
L=Balance
Drive one 20gig
D=5gig holds page files for both op sys
M=7.5gig first back up
N=7.5gig second backup
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Now the fun stuff
I use tweak UI to relocate W98 programs , My Documents My Music to the 
correct drive
If I upgrade W98 to W2K I reformat C intall ALL my files are still in 
place and available.
This also gos for my second op sys it can be blown away and changed
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Remember Linux allows you to mount Fat drives so it can still see my W98 
files
When I had W2K I used NTSF and these files where hidden from W98

Backup are done with batch files coping various folds to one of the back 
up partitions
once a month I burn CD for safe back up storage

Does this help or are you in more of a mess!!!
Stephen

Cyber Source wrote:

>"remember your computer must have a common first drive to dual boot"
>I do realize that and then the question went on as to how to write
>lilo.conf so that this can be accomplished. Are you saying, that in a
>dual boot scenario with scsi and ide, that lilo has to be on the ide? I
>found with the disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 statement that I can tell the
>system that the scsi drive is first but then I have trouble booting to
>the actual ide drive (which has window$ on it)
>On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 09:10, sfielding7 wrote:
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>>OH no
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>>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
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>>OK
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>>Cyber Source wrote:
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>>>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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Hamilton  Ontario Canada

Remember chin up and put on a SMILE
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