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Re: Unable to dual boot using LILO nor GRUB with Win98



Also Sprach Mike Watson <mikew crucis net>:

> I now have LILO running.  I had a case of operator head gap and had
> screwed the BIOS for the 2nd HD to NONE instead of AUTO.  Interestingly,
> the boot disk could see the drive, LILO could not.

That's because the kernel on the bootdisk has the smarts to scan
for drives itself and ignores the BIOS; LILO makes real-mode BIOS
calls for the information.

Wil
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