Re: Dual Booting (Part II)

[Mike List <troll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands wrote:
> 
> Okay, it's failing miserably.  Here's why:
> 
> Every time I want to boot Linux, I have to physically
> take the case off of my hard drive, move the jumper
> on the Linux drive from "slave" to "single".  Then,
> and only then, can I boot Linux.  It will *not* boot
> any other way - not even with a boot diskette.
> 
> I made the change to the very first line of lilo.conf,
> where it says:
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> 
> to read
> 
> boot=/dev/hdb1
> 
> I ran lilo, and it said:
> 
> '/dev/hbd not configured'
> 
> Of course, since I'm *only booting the Linux hard
> drive*, it has itself (the Linux hard drive) as
> /dev/hda, my cdrom as /dev/hdb, and so on and
> so forth.
> 
> I..am..totally..lost
> 
> I can't boot Linux from system commander...says the
> Linux boot partition /dev/hda1 isn't formattted.
> 
> I can't change lilo.conf - says /dev/hdb1 isn't
> configured.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something *really obvious*, I'm beginning
> to suspect that I *cannot* dual-boot in my current state.
> 
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Did you identify the second drive in your BIOS or CMOS setup?
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-Mike List