Re: [TCLUG:12476] LILO/Dual Boot Question

["Andrew S. Zbikowski" <andyzib@ringworld.org>]

Your problem is, windows doesn't boot on anything but the primiary master
drive.  For your setup, (and in an all dos enviorment) the Maxtor would show
up as C and the WD as drive D.

There's your Win98 problem in a nutshell. On the bright side, lilo does have
a work around that tricks windows into thinking that the slave is the master
and the master is the slave, but you'll have to thourally read the
documentation (man lilo, /usr/doc/lilo*, /usr/share/doc/lilo*)

I don't know if this is still necissary but you may also have to add an
append=hda "cyls,heads,sectors" (something close to that.) for bigger hard
drive. Consult the large disk howto.

When I installed redhat (it lasted about 1 day on my system) It did the lilo
drive swapping for me since I had "bottable" dos partitions on both hard
drives. But I didn't have a seperate controler card. You might want to
consider disabling your onboard IDE controllers as it would free up some
inturrupts and make the whole mess eiser to work with.

Andy