dual boot & lilo prob

[gianfranko]

Ok I have been trying to install a dual boot system between windows and mandrake for quite sometime. I have 3 hard drives 1GB SCSI sda, 17.2GB SCSI w/ 2 partitions sdb1 & sdb2, and an 6GB IDE to which I am trying to install linux. I am currently using the 17.2 drive as my main drive (where I have win). During mandrake install what I did is that I installed linux to the IDE drive hda1 and everything went well. Then I installed LILO to hda. Then I enabled bootmagic to point to the hda1 partition. When I tried to get into linux through bootmagic the system just froze.

Then I tried some other things. I changed the lba32 line in the lilo.conf file to linear. and boot setting to boot=/dev/hda1
Then after trying to boot through bootmagic I got the letters "LI" displayed on screen. As if the system just froze when loading LILO. I also tried changing the boot setting to /dev/fd0 to create a boot disk. The disk was created perfectly fine, but when I boot with it I also get the letters "LI"

I am reluctant to intall lilo in the mbr of the main drive (17.2 scsi) since it seems as if it just freezes anyhow. Any suggestions?

[gianfranko]

here is my lilo.conf file at the moment:

boot=/dev/hda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
linear
compact
prompt
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/sda1
label=windows
table=/dev/sda
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
other=/dev/sdb1
label=windows2
table=/dev/sdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe

[gianfranko]

I was thinking of maybe deactivating the boot menu in LILO. But I am not sure how to do that. You see when I boot with the floppy created during mandrake install it displays the letters LI for a sec and then it switches to the boot menu.

Is there a way I can just get the old LILO: prompt ??