On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 04:39 PM, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> 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.
Yes... that makes sense. I tried that and lilo gives the Loading win...
message then stops. It doesn't freeze as I can't reboot with the three
finger salute. It isn't that big of a deal; I've been switching in the
bios for now and don't really spend that much time in windows anyway,
but it'd be nice to know what's going on.
Thanks..
>> btt wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I have inside my machine two hard drives. One is Gentoo and one is
>>> Windows ME.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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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