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Topic: Can't boot second harddrive, OS on second HD doesn't boot

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glue

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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,15:41

I just added an old HD to my linux box. It has 2 partitions on it with win95 and NTWS. cfdisk says the partitions exist as hdb1 and hdb2 but I can't read, write or boot to either. I've added...

other=/dev/hdb1
label=win95

...to lilo.conf and run lilo and win95 is added to the boot menu but will not boot when selected.

How do I get my other partitions to boot? Is it possible to read and write from one partition to another?

Thanks.

qbo

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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,17:52

I`m booting DSL with win98 without any problems. The win98 partition, which is fat32, is readable, writable and bootable.

I used grub to do this, but I think, you can get it done with lilo too.
I have only one disk - hda, but I think it should work with two disks as well.

Here is, how I have set my primary partitions:

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hda1 Boot Primary Win95 FAT32 7962.08
hda2 Boot Primary Linux ext2 57.58

I`ve got no experience using lilo.conf.
In fact, when I ran frugal install script, I had grub installed automatically and it`s working perfectly with only minor changes to menu.lst.