I set up another hard drive with XP Pro. Now I have /dev/hda1 running
Win98SE, /dev/hda3 running Slack 8 and /dev/hdb1 running WinXP Pro. I
put the appropriate 'other' section in /etc/lilo.conf that reads (by
memory)

other = /dev/hdb1
  label = WinXP
  table = /dev/hdb

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?

Oh, and BTW, it's the latest LILO, 22.something, just got it from
slackware.com

Any ideas?
  
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Peter Popov wrote:

> I set up another hard drive with XP Pro. Now I have /dev/hda1 running
> Win98SE, /dev/hda3 running Slack 8 and /dev/hdb1 running WinXP Pro. I
> put the appropriate 'other' section in /etc/lilo.conf that reads (by
> memory)
> 
> other = /dev/hdb1
>   label = WinXP
>   table = /dev/hdb
> 
> 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.
> 

sits the partition table really in /dev/hdb? or maybe in /dev/hdb1?
how do you set your bios to boot from a slave harddisk? do you have a 
floppy in diskdrive?
what is on /dev/hda2?

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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...


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On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 06:50:40 +0200, marabou <not### [at] availablenet> wrote:

>sits the partition table really in /dev/hdb? or maybe in /dev/hdb1?

I don't know how NTFS works but I'll try /dev/hdb1. For my DOS
partition it's in /dev/hda so I just extrapolated.

>how do you set your bios to boot from a slave harddisk? 

I just set "Boot from" to "D, C, SCSI" and voila.

>do you have a floppy in diskdrive?

>what is on /dev/hda2?

I think /dev/hda2 is the extended partition which holds the two
logical DOS drives.


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On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 09:57:46 +0200, Jaime Vives Piqueres
<jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

>  As Marabou mentioned, you can't just have boot partitions on slave disks.

Interesting then... how does the BIOS boot from there?

>At least not by simply adding the entry to lilo.conf.

Ah :)

>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...

Ah, so you want me to lie to my computer? WTF, as if I haven't done it
before :)

Thanks, Jaime, I'll look into it.


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Peter Popov wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 06:50:40 +0200, marabou <not### [at] availablenet> wrote:
> 
>>sits the partition table really in /dev/hdb? or maybe in /dev/hdb1?
> 
> I don't know how NTFS works but I'll try /dev/hdb1. For my DOS
> partition it's in /dev/hda so I just extrapolated.
> 
>>how do you set your bios to boot from a slave harddisk?
> 
> I just set "Boot from" to "D, C, SCSI" and voila.
> 
>>do you have a floppy in diskdrive?
> 
>>what is on /dev/hda2?
> 
> I think /dev/hda2 is the extended partition which holds the two
> logical DOS drives.
> 

you really should get more familar with *nix drives. it does not matter if 
you boot ntfs, dos, ext2, 3 or (nearly) whatever. lilo is a bootloader, not 
an os.
you can n o t give names to your partitions how y o u want.

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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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On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 09:57:46 +0200, Jaime Vives Piqueres
<jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

>  Hope this helps...

Works fine now, thanks Jaime!


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On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 15:59:17 +0200, marabou <not### [at] availablenet> wrote:

>> I think /dev/hda2 is the extended partition which holds the two
>> logical DOS drives.

>you really should get more familar with *nix drives. it does not matter if 
>you boot ntfs, dos, ext2, 3 or (nearly) whatever. lilo is a bootloader, not 
>an os.

I know :) That's exactly what I want to use it for - to boot a
specific partition which I know is bootable because I can boot it from
the BIOS.

>you can n o t give names to your partitions how y o u want.

?!
I don't want that... It's how Linux names them. The logical partition
IIRC come after the extended partitions that hold them. I have a
primary that holds my C:, two more DOS logical drives and a Linux
partition. It's just how they are named.


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