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DashJoe7
03-02-2002, 12:05 AM
I have Redhat 7.2 on my primary hard drive. i just added a second hard drive that has windows 95 on it. how can i boot up windows? :confused:
scanez
03-02-2002, 12:19 AM
Now I haven't had to dual-boot in a loooooooooong time but I think it was add

other=/dev/hdb1
label=win
table=/dev/hdb

to /etc/lilo.conf if not there already. Then run /sbin/lilo and upon rebooting enter "win".

I think...
mdwatts
03-02-2002, 07:09 AM
If Windows is on the second physical drive, then you may need to add

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

to /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo (as scanez suggested already) to write the changes.
Cannonfodder
03-03-2002, 12:38 AM
WattsMD,

Just out of curiousity, what does that do? 0x80 0x81? Something to do with the partition table format?
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
03-03-2002, 04:42 AM
what the 0x80 0x81 does is it tricks Windows 95 into thinking it's on the first physical partition on the first physical drive. Windows 95 won't boot unless it's like that...
scanez
03-03-2002, 04:44 AM
:)

Praise the LNO community for being so helpful
mdwatts
03-03-2002, 07:33 AM
What Alex said. Thanks AC.
Cannonfodder
03-03-2002, 01:25 PM
OIC, like my System Commander boot manager (before I started using lilo) allowed me to install a windows system and the selected os will always be C:. Cool!