Yes, /dev/hdb1 is the correct syntax, not /dev/hdb . Remember,
you're trying to tell LILO to boot from a specific partition, not the
whole disk. I hope that makes sense.
/mario
>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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