Lilo botting from hdb

[seantasker]

Hello,
I've got my computer set up with 2 drives
hda is the primary with Linux on it. Lilo is installed on the MBR of this drive, I also have hdb with windows ME on it, I've tried to make it so Lilo will boot winME when I select it but all I get is a display that says "Loading WinME" and thats al. this is my lilo.conf file.


boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
promt
timeout="50"
messazge=/boot/message
linear
default=linux

image=/"boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label="linux"
read-only
root="/dev/hda5"

other=/dev/hdb1
label="WinME"
table=/dev/hdb

hdb only has the one partition, it is a 20Gig drive.
Thanks to anyone who can help
Sean

[jglen490]

Try changing the "linear" to "lba32".

[seantasker]

Thanks I'll give it a try :D

[bdl]

What you need to do is use LILO to fake out your system into thinking /dev/hdb is the master drive. You do this by adding the following to your lilo.conf file:


# windows on /dev/hdb1
#
other=/dev/hdb1
label=windows
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
table = /dev/hdb


Don't forget to rerun /sbin/lilo after you edit the file! Luck!

[seantasker]

Hey again
the lba32 didn't work.
but the map to thing did,
does that mean I can boot off a secondary master by changing the addresses? cause I actually more drives I want to be able to boot off and this was a first step. so how can I boot off a secondary master and secondary slave?
Thanks
Sean