Also is there anyproblems booting win2000 with lilo? Same as win98 right?
Ah! snap been going round this loop myself on and off over the past few months.
I think that you're right about not needing a /boot partition with newer large drives but I've always set my distro's up with one to be on the safe side.
Quick answers
a) yes, W2K boots fine with lilo, I let Debian generate the lilo.conf entry for me and it works fine.
b) having problems myself getting lilo to boot from the 2nd IDE
My system works flawlessly. i have 3 hd's with only one on the main channels. simply (with linux running from hde) run not lilo -v but add the device tag. lilo -v -b /dev/hda the data goes in MBR, so you dont need a boot partition. a boot partition is only there so you dont zap to boot files if they're in your main / tree. Or if you're setup is weird. WinBlows in this case is defaulted to i can boot it with a USB only keyboard. winXP pro shits itself if it has a ps/2 and a usb keyboard (keyboard is a ms net pre, usb hub. lilo wont read usb, and ps/2 wont run the hub...) /etc/lilo.conf <code start>
prompt lba32 delay=50 timeout="50" install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map menu-title="Boot options" default=WinBlows append=" hdc=scsi hdd=scsi" boot="/dev/hde" root=/dev/hde7
image="/boot/bzImage.19" label="Gentoo-current" read-only
other=/dev/hda1 label="WinBlows" table=/dev/hda
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