Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Ronald Wiplinger <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used to use LILO, but with one of my machines it does not work. I need 
to boot from the CD, and say INSTALL, than it pops up if I want to boot 
the already installed system. That works. Lilo directly I cannot get to 
work.


Drives:
ronald:/home/ronald # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2231 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

 Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1      1044   8385898+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 116336 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

 Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1             1      2038   1027120+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdc2   *      2039    116336  57606192   83  Linux


To make it more complicated: The ATAPI CDROM is the first primary
The SCSI CDWRITER is a SCSI
SCSI is on board as well IDE

Now, I boot with the SCSI CDwriter SuSE Linux and say after booting, 
boot installed system

I tried to swap around in /etc/lilo.conf

disk    = /dev/hdc
bios  = 0x80
disk    = /dev/sda
bios  = 0x81

boot    = /dev/hdc

but with no success.


What I want:

1. Windows 2000 server is on the first (hot swapable) hard disk
2. Linux is on the IDE drive.

MOST of the time I need just Linux, ....


How can I setup it so, that:
1. with the SCSI (hot swapable) Windows 2000 hard disk I can choose 
Windows or Linux
2. without the SCSI (hot swapable) Windows 2000 hard disk I still can 
boot Linux.
(all other drives ATAPI CDrom and SCSI CDwriter remains connected)


Thanks!

bye

Ronald

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Ronald  Wiplinger, Technical Director
Bright Networking Inc, http://www.2bright.net
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