btt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have inside my machine two hard drives. One is Gentoo and one is
> Windows ME.
>
> /dev/hda is the gentoo, ata primary
> /dev/hdb is the window, ata secondary
>
> as i understand the man lilo.conf page, in order to have lilo boot the
> windows drive, i need something like this:
>
> other=/dev/hdb
> label=win
>
> and that should do it. But it doesn't do it. When I select the win
> option in lilo, it just acts as if lilo re-loads (ie, the countdown
> restarts, etc.). I remember using this method to dual boot linux and
> freebsd in the same manner, but with windows it obviously doesn't work.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
It has been a while since I have dual booted, and I may not remember
this correctly, but shouldn't that read "other=/dev/hdb1" ?
Jeff
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