[Nelug] REDHAT 8.0 & Win2000

[Andy]

When you use LILO, do you just get the letters LI at the prompt?


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From: "Costas Vorlow" <K.E.Vorloou at durham.ac.uk>
To: <nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:12 PM
Subject: [Nelug] REDHAT 8.0 & Win2000


> Dear list members,
>
> I have problems setting up a dual boot system with win2K and Linux RH,
> the latest edition. I tried Lilo and grub, both on the MBR and the 1st
> sector of the boot partition and I failed. I also failed when I tried to
> modiy boot.ini under windows to "see" my linux partition. I can only
> boot RH from the floppy.
>
> I  used some 3rd party applications such as BootPart but they seem to be
> unable to detect my Linux partition. I used "journalised" linux
> partition format for that (/devhdc5). Maybe that is the problem? I used
> to have thare Mandrake 9.0
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and replies.
>
> Best regards,
> Costas
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