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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