From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Help with LILO Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 17:11:12 GMT
In article <BwD8z5.GoA@cs.bham.ac.uk> row@cs.bham.ac.uk (Reuben O. Wells) writes:
>I run lilo with a command something like this:
>
>./lilo -b /dev/hda -i boot.b -v -v -v linux=/vmlinux \
>msdos=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hda1@/dev/hda
>
>This allows me to boot Linux with no problems, however I cannot
>boot DOS! I get an error 'please insert system disc ...' please
>can someone tell me what I am doing wrong ?
Is your DOS partition marked as 'active'? Try using 'fdisk' to see
(fdisk /dev/hda) - there should be a '*' under the Boot column for
your DOS partition. (This is assuming the fdisk from the MCC interim,
HJ's base, or the 0.97.1+ root disks).
What version of MS-DOS are you running? I can't say I've heard of any
single version of MS-DOS that definitely doesn't work with LILO, but
there are some that I know do (ie. DR-DOS 6.0).
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