[Gllug] duel booting

[George F. Saxby]

Hi,
 there was nothing Freudian about it ! it is a real fight believe me.

	Ok windows was installed first to a 9Gb part. to it self the rest to Linux. 
lilo written to the MBR. no go.
	Then I thought lets try the 1024cyls bit and get linux  / within that so 
reduced the win partition to 6Gb (by the way forget partition magic soooo 
slow just use linux fdisk ) re-install linux  lilo to mbr no go . 
	So get silly reduce doze to 1Gb give linux / the next 6GB then the swap then 
a doze then linux /home

 This is ALL mandrake 8 install , the lilo boot loader is a graphical splash 
screen asking what you want to boot to. Windoze despite all the faffing with 
the partition size works well. Linux  when chosen just re-cycles the splash 
screen so there is no chance to see li or lil or any such thing.

	 If you choose floppy (ie the rescue floppy built at install time) you get 
ok this will get you to /dev/hda? ( where ? is the first linux part ie / ) or 
wait 10 secs and it will boot from there (which it does not) press enter at 
boot: prompt and you get a nice row of dots  the screen blanks and the floppy 
message appears again .

	Since I can use Tom's rt/bt disk I can get to /etc/lilo.conf  some one 
mention to check for LBA32 in one of the lines is that correct. ?

	I tried re-running lilo but since the toms disk does not have the correct 
environment set it fails.

	OK so if all else fails how do you construct a boot disk for LINUX that will 
get me free of this nightmare?
 
Thanks for all the comments so far.


On Wednesday 11 July 2001 07:36, your missive said : -
 > Hi,
 > 	I have an 18Gb drive which can be parted any which way ( currently 2
 > parts under the 1024 cyl limit BUT LINUX refuses to boot. The so called
 > rescue / boot disk created by mandrake 8 does not work either.
 >  Any one have a fool proof way of duel booting a large Hard disk?
 > TIA

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george
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