[ale] Win98 + LILO
    Drag0n 
    dragon at atlantacon.org
       
    Wed Mar 19 14:47:21 EST 2003
    
    
  
it can, but its not easy. the trick is it still has to be within the
first 1024 sectors. This is the main reason for a seperate /boot
partition.
The other way around this is a boot manager called XOSL, it can play a
lot of tricks on windows. 
http://www.xosl.org/
But it has several issues in itself.
Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org
Jason Day wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:13:39AM -0800, Herman, Izzie wrote:
> > Here's what I have in /etc/lilo.conf
> >
> > other=/dev/hda6
> >       label=windows
> >
> > When I try to boot into windows, it just hangs at "Loading Windows"
> 
> Can windows 98 boot from a partition other than the first?  I've never
> tried putting windows on anything other than /dev/hda1.
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