converting to grub from lilo [DrDos on hdc1 not booting]

Mark Neidorff mark at neidorff.com
Sun May 23 18:18:57 UTC 2004


In your lilo conf. you say that DrDOS is on /dev/hdc.  Wouldn't that 
correspond to hd2 in grub?

Mark 

On Sun, 23 May 2004, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

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> When I used lilo to boot with this in the lilo.conf file:
> 
> other=/dev/hda1
>         label="theWin98se"
>         table=/dev/hda
> other=/dev/hdc1
>         label="DrDos"
>         table=/dev/hdc
>         map-drive=0x80
>            to=0x81
>         map-drive=0x81
>            to=0x80
> 
> Both Win98 & DrDos were fully bootable... 
> 
> But when I tried to use grub to boot with this in the grub.conf:
> 
> title theWin98se
>         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>         chainloader +1
> title DrDos
>         rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>         map (hd0) (hd1)
>         map (hd1) (hd0)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> Windows boots. DrDos doesn't quite make it. It gets as far as putting the
> starting dos message on the screen. And then just hangs there. 
> 
> What am I missing here?  I'd hate to go back to lilo for the sake of
> DrDos When it's working for all 4 of my linux and windows too. But I'm
> stubborn, I don't often use the dos anymore, But I insist on having the
> option at boot time.
> 
> Would someone be so kind as to tell me what the problem could be.
> 
> 
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