lilo on mbr hda1 (vfat) - dos6 0n hda1

[willk]

I am experimenting with a piece of dos software.
I have win on hda. lilo is mbr on hda. hdb1 is dos 6.6 and Slack beyound hdb5.
I'd like to be able to boot into dos on hdb1 with lilo...
Pretty sure I had done something similar a long time ago...
Just too lazy this morning to do much searching...anybody got a quick answer?

[bdg1983]

Nothing in 'man lilo' or 'man lilo.conf'?

Should be other lilo documentation installed on your system. How-to's...

[Molecule Man]

You have the dos drive "sys"ed right? You should set up LILO for that partion just like you do for Windows, I think.

[SubPar]

I was having a similar problem recently. After getting a new hard drive, I shunted windows to the new drive (hdb), keeping Linux on hda. However, any attempt to boot windows from hdb caused nothing to happen.

It turns out that I needed to have lilo fool windows into thinking it was on hda. I found the necessary reference, and edited my windows section in lilo.conf to look like this:


other=/dev/hdb1
label=windows
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80


That works perfectly for me.

Hope this helps.