SATA Dual Boot help ...

[Ben Duncan]

Thanks ... Seems the Evils-OS using "Other Operating System Detector"
detected LINUX on the primary partition and decided to Crap all over
itself.

anyway, after getting that fixed,

I did something similar after RTFM on LILO:

boot-as = 0x80

All is well now.

The bad thing, is that Dual boot is JUST there as a "in case" , since
the partition will be run in vmware mode.

Thanks ...



Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Ben Duncan wrote:
>> Ok, I have a custom machine I am setting up. It has 2 SATA II hard 
>> disks in it.
>>
>> I have set up LINUX on the first disk and the second disk is a 1TB, that
>> is split with WinXp on the first partition and the rest for Linux .
>>
>> I can boot the WinXp disk fine, if it is the FIRST disk or even "select"
>> it as the boot disk in the bios selection, however I cannot get LILO
>> to boot it correctly.
>>
>> When the selection is made using LILO, I get "LI 0101010101 ....."
>>
>> any suggestions ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
> 
> Some time ago, I had a problem like this which I beat on forever.  I 
> finally installed M$ on an IDE drive separate from the SATA drives, but 
> I still had problems getting LILO to boot the M$ partition.  I 
> discovered that the problem was an issue of disk geometry.  I wrote up a 
> HOW-TO that somehow never got posted on linux-sxs but here is the crux 
> of the problem:
> 
> I wrote
> 
> "To boot The Evil OS, it's necessary to make it's boot loader think that 
> it is on the first drive in the boot sequence.  To do this with LILO, 
> it's necessary to change the mapping of the disk device numbers in the 
> portion of the liloconfig file dedicated to The Evil OS."
<SNIP>

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