lilo

[Cyber Source]

Does this help or are you in more of a mess!!!
I asked about the relationship of scsi vs ide in lilo. I dont need to
know about windows. Thanks anyway.....
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 17:40, sfielding7 wrote:
> 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
> *******************************************
> 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
> ********************************************
> 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:
> >  
> >
> >>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:
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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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> >>Remember chin up and put on a SMILE
> >>You my be surprised who is watching.
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> Hamilton  Ontario Canada
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> Remember chin up and put on a SMILE
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