Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> Peter Popov wrote:
> 
>> After running lilo, the partition is listed. It does not boot, though.
>> I know it's working because I can set my BIOS to boot from that disk
>> and XP works fine. In fact this post is being written in XP.
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
> 
>   As Marabou mentioned, you can't just have boot partitions on slave
>   disks.
> At least not by simply adding the entry to lilo.conf. But it can be done
> with a little trick: I've done it in the past. The problem is that I don't
> remember it exactly... it was done with the "map-drive" command to switch
> the disks. Something like:
> 
>   other=/dev/hdb1
>   label=WinXP
>   table=/deb/hdb
>   map-drive=0x80
>     to=0x81
>   map-drive=0x81
>     to=0x80
> 
>   Hope this helps...
> 
e.g.:
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zriinfo/linux/howto/English/mini/LILO.html

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