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

[E Nigma <enigma os2 ami com au>]

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 04:34, you wrote:
> 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.

I often tell the BIOS that I only have one drive - my server currently has 
three plus an EIDE CD reader.

It's simpler than maintaining the truth (I tend to shuffle regularly) and 
faster at boot time than 'auto."

I've been doing it ever since I discovered OS/2 didn't use the BIOS 
information - before I began using Linux. Neither OS/2 nor Linux places a lot 
of value in the BIOS information about drives.


I suspect that Grub's stage1 has to be readable by the BIOS too, but I've not 
put it to any test.




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