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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Franco Principe <franco@sgi.com>
        LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:57:17 +1000

Re: Can Lilo work without Linux?

At 01:37 PM 1/29/01 +1030, Franco Principe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a system with 2 HDD. One has Win95 (primary), the other Linux. 
>Lilo is being used to boot between the two disks. I need to remove the
>second (linux) disk for a short time. I don't want to remove lilo from 
>the first disk as I will be refitting the second disk back into the 
>system later & want my linux system to work again! 
>
>From my understanding of the pc boot process, the boot sector is read
>in at boot time. Lilo is (in essence) pointing to the different 
>boot images on the machine. So regardless if linux is installed or not
>on the second drive, I should still be able to boot to windoze by
>selecting "dos" from the lilo boot prompt from the first disk.
>
>I ask this because I have removed the second disk and now if  I try 
>to boot from the first disk I get a string of 07 across the screen
>and the machine does not boot. 
>
>What could the problem & possible solution be ?

Put the Linux disk back in.

The part of LILO in the MBR loads lilo.sys from /boot on your Linux disk
and that interprets the menu and all that stuff. Without lilo.sys (the
second stage loader), you are stuffed!

>fp.
>
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Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba


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