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mongre
06-18-2001, 07:46 AM
I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on a second HD on my system and am trying to get it to dualboot that and Win98 so that I can learn Linux in my spare time and keep my system able to access all my old programs and such. So far I've managed to get lilo to recognize that both linux and dos (win98)exist but when I choose to boot dos it just hangs. Does anyone know what might be causing this?

right now it's set up as follows:
Root HD: 4GB with a main linux partition and a swap partition
Slave HD: 30GB 4 fat32 partitions with win98 on the first (MBR is still from windows...I installed that with the 4GB drive completely out of the system)

linux will boot fine but lilo won't boot the windows drive, and if I modify BIOS to boot from the D drive windows boots up fine but that's a pain in the butt to change all the time. I'm still very new to linux so please don't be too linux-technical ;)

Thanks much
mongre

bdg1983
06-18-2001, 09:15 AM
Windows doesn't normally like to be on the 2nd HD, but you can try this.

Edit /etc/lilo.conf and under the windows entry;

other = /dev/hdb1
label = dos
map-drive =0x80
to =0x81
map-drive =0x81
to =0x80

Run /sbin/lilo as root at the commandline (terminal) and try to reboot into windows.