Suse 8.0 and lilo

Harry G harrycg
Mon May 17 11:32:58 PDT 2004


After doing a fresh install of version 8.0 on my dual hard drive dual boot 
machine, I couldn't boot windows, as it 
listed it in lilo as /sdb1.  Lilo is in my boot sector on hda, by the way.

I changed lilo to: 


  other  = /dev/hda1
  label  = Windows98

And saved it.  Ran lilo at the SU prompt, but I get:

linux:/home/harrycg # lilo
Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81
Added linux *
Added failsafe
Added Windows98
Added memtest86
linux:/home/harrycg #

I am not sure what the warnings mean.  I am afraid to restart the system until 
I know what it is telling me.  My complete lilo.conf file is listed below.

Any ideas?

TIA

Harry G

                                     Contents of lilo.conf

disk	= /dev/hda
  bios	= 0x80
disk	= /dev/hdb
  bios	= 0x81
disk	= /dev/sda
  bios	= 0x82
disk	= /dev/sdb
  bios	= 0x83
boot	= /dev/hda
change-rules
reset
read-only
menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
lba32
prompt
timeout	= 80
message	= /boot/message

  image  = /boot/vmlinuz
  label  = linux
  root   = /dev/hdb3
  vga    = 791
  initrd = /boot/initrd
  append = " hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

  image  = /boot/vmlinuz.suse
  label  = failsafe
  root   = /dev/hdb3
  vga    = 791
  initrd = /boot/initrd.suse
  append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off  hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
  optional

  other  = /dev/hda1
  label  = Windows98

  image  = /boot/memtest.bin
  label  = memtest86






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