Hi group,

I have 3 HD's on my system. The first one is the master HD on the 1 EIDE
bus with windows 98 on the secound one I installed Suse Linux 7.0. It is
the slave HD on the 1. EIDE bus. the 3 one is just for data it is a windows
partition.

How do I install "lilo " to boot my system with win98 or
linux?
I looked for hours in the web, but it made me more confused then it did
help me.
what I understood is I can install Lilo to the 1HD even thoughI have win 98
on it, cause the lilo istaller writes only some parts from the bootmanager
in the mbr from my first harddisk and ignors win 98 and the rest will run on
my 2.HD in the linux root directory
and there lilo will do what I ask lilo to do in my "lilo.conf" file
but I'm not really sure about that.

thanks for all your help

matt

> I have 3 HD's on my system. The first one is the master HD on the 1 EIDE
> bus with windows 98 on the secound one I installed Suse Linux 7.0. It is
> the slave HD on the 1. EIDE bus. the 3 one is just for data it is a windows
> partition.
>
> How do I install "lilo " to boot my system with win98 or
> linux?
> I looked for hours in the web, but it made me more confused then it did
> help me.
> what I understood is I can install Lilo to the 1HD even thoughI have win 98
> on it, cause the lilo istaller writes only some parts from the bootmanager
> in the mbr from my first harddisk and ignors win 98 and the rest will run on
> my 2.HD in the linux root directory

install lilo on the disk you boot from, usually hda, the master on ide0
All you need is a boot=/dev/hda line in your lilo.conf.

NOTE: if your lilo.conf is incorrect your PC will not boot at all, not
even to windows. Show your lilo.conf here for confirmation if you want
to.

Eric

Have a look at the sample lilo.conf files at:

http://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/sample

Note: These config files are written for the current LILO release.

--John



On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:37:19 +0200, "Matthias Roeder" <info@vmind.de> wrote:

>Hi group,
>
>I have 3 HD's on my system. The first one is the master HD on the 1 EIDE
>bus with windows 98 on the secound one I installed Suse Linux 7.0. It is
>the slave HD on the 1. EIDE bus. the 3 one is just for data it is a windows
>partition.
>
>How do I install "lilo " to boot my system with win98 or
>linux?
>I looked for hours in the web, but it made me more confused then it did
>help me.
>what I understood is I can install Lilo to the 1HD even thoughI have win 98
>on it, cause the lilo istaller writes only some parts from the bootmanager
>in the mbr from my first harddisk and ignors win 98 and the rest will run on
>my 2.HD in the linux root directory
>and there lilo will do what I ask lilo to do in my "lilo.conf" file
>but I'm not really sure about that.
>
>thanks for all your help
>
>matt
>
>
>


LILO version 22++ links at:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo