Dual boot confusion..

[nero]

I have debian 2.2 installed on a 27g drive, and 98ME on a 2g drive. I'm trying to use the 2g as a slave and get Lilo to boot it.
I set the lilo.conf to other=/dev/hdb but it just hangs on "Loading.."

Is there a way to do this? Will Windows boot like this from a second drive? I'm trying to avoid repartitioning and reinstalling both on the same drive.. I've tried putting the 98ME drive as master but then I can't get into Linux from the boot floppy to change the Lilo.conf..

I'm sure I'm going about this the absolute wrong way, any help would be appreciated.

[Craig McPherson]

Originally posted by nero:
I set the lilo.conf to other=/dev/hdb but it just hangs on "Loading.."

Nono... you need to point lilo at the partition Windows is installed on. Like, /dev/hdb1 for example. /dev/hdb is the entire second hard drive, not one particular partition.

One other problem you might have is that I don't believe Windows likes not being installed on the first hard drive. I know you can safely install it anywhere on the first hard drive, but I'm not positive it'll work how you have it. It may. If not, you can cut 2GB off the end of your Linux drive and put Windows on that.

[nero]

Thanks for the help..it still refuses to boot, I'm thinking you're right about it being on the second drive. I'll have to try something else..maybe I'll just go with Linux only..no better time than the present!
:)

[Craig McPherson]

That's always a good idea.

But if you don't want to give up on 'doze just yet, you can use Linux's ext2resize filesystem resizer to shave a couple GB off one of your Linux partitions. It's not as risky as it sounds. It's almost as risky as it sounds, though.