From: bdickens@elara.mitre.org (Brian Dickens) Subject: LILO with C: LINUX and D: DOS ?!? HELP! Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 16:18:01 GMT
I have seen several references to problems with LILO, and
people generally scream "read the FAQ". But I did, and
I'm still having problems, so I feel somewhat justified
in posting this.
I have 2 drives in my system. One is a 200 meggie Maxtor,
the other is a 130 meggie Maxtor. I figure that since
DOS has doublespace, it can survive in a smaller space, so
I want to put DOS on the 130 and LINUX on the 200. The
200 used to be drive C: before I mucked around with LINUX,
now the 130 is C: and the 200 is a LINUX drive.
I configured LILO in the following fashion:
(This is from memory, but you get the idea.)
image = /Image
label = linux
other = /dev/hdb1
label = dos
table = /dev/hdb
The point is that LINUX boots just fine, but if I choose
dos from LILO, I get a "Non-system disk or disk error"
message, asking me to insert a DOS-bootable disk into the
A drive. When I do, everything works... and my C drive
is there as normal.
I'm wondering if DOS is only capable of booting from the
FIRST hard drive??? I've tried a few other combinations
for the "other" clause (like putting the table on hda, or
hdb1, or all sorts of things) but that makes me get a
"NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED" and the computer crashes.
The closest I have managed to get is this non-system disk
or disk error message.
Anyone had a similar problem? Thanks in advance for any
help...
-Brian