Re: Urgent help needed!

["L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net>]

Windoze may be finicky, but not that picky.  Mine has been on
partition 4 since the win 3.1 days, and now resides on my second
(slave) hard disk (same disk, just cabled differently), on
/dev/hdb4, to be precise, and DRDOS is on hda1: with lilo they
both boot up thinking they are drive C.  If you're willing to
wade through the longish lilo manual, you can do almost anything
you want (the ascii text version of the manual is found in
/usr/doc/lilo-0.21/README, on my system (RedHat)).  Most setups
can be done through the /usr/doc/lilo-0.21/QuickInst script.

Here's my setup:
87% df -H
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb4             212M  112M  100M  53% /dos/win95
/dev/hda1              37M   14M   23M  38% /dos/c

And the M$ part of my lilo.conf:
other = /dev/hda1
  table = /dev/hda
  label = drdos
  alias = d

other = /dev/hdb4
  table = /dev/hdb
  label = win95
  alias = 95
  # Swap drives virtually:
  map-drive = 0x80
     to = 0x81
  map-drive = 0x81
     to = 0x80


On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andor Demarteau wrote:

> ohe error you made, windoz always needs to be on partition 1,
> no exceptions at all!  The dos-labeled lines is incorrect as
> well, have a look in the lilo-manpage there's a clear exampe
> near the bottom of it explaining exactly how to do this.  I
> have attached my lilo.conf (yes I'm a poor sod still having
> windoz on hda1 I know).  good luck!
 

> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> 
>  > Hi all, I urgently need help to solve this problem regarding
>  > partitioning.  I have written my own lilo.conf, which I have
>  > included at the end of this message, and then when I select
>  > windows from lilo get the error message: cannot find
>  > c:\windows\system\something.vxd, i cannot remember exactly.
>  > basically it is looking for the windows boot loader. i am
>  > using windows millennium incase this matters.  my lilo.conf
>  > file is:

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L. C. Robinson
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