I know its probably bad form to reply to your own posts, but just a thought - could this be because when W2K was present I always had it installed in conjunction with another windoze flavor? It may never have been installed on the first partition. Is W2K "special" in exhibiting the problem? i.e. it doesn't happen with NT4 or XP?
Brian (again) On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 09:45, Brian Parish wrote: > I'm REALLY confused about this because I have never had the problem, > despite having done numerous installs of LM from 7.1 to 8.1 on systems > which already had W2K, NT4 whatever. At the moment I'm running a XP / > LM8.1 machine. AFAIK XP uses the same bootloader setup as NT and 2K > (it's all just flavors of NT anyway I guess). My installation procedure > was: > > 1. Install XP leaving some unpartitioned space. > 2. Install LM8.1 > > The boot device is HDA. LILO handles it. XP boots (as rarely as > possible). LM boots. No problem. No floppies. > > I previously had the same experience with a W98/NT4/W2K/LM system. LILO > was configured with two choices - M$ or Linux. Choosing M$ would then > execute the windog boot loader from which I could choose which flavor of > hell I wished to descend into. Again, apart from windoze being there - > no problem and no floppies at any stage of the process. > > So, can someone sort me out as to why I am so lucky? I am really keen > to know the ins and outs as I anticipate installing LM on lots of client > machines, so I guess I'll run into whatever circumstances cause the > problem soon enough. > > TIA > Brian > > On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 08:37, Jorge Giménez Mayorgas wrote: > > Hi again. > > > > My problem is that I can't boot linux after installing lm8.0. > > I get L0 instead of graphical lilo. W2k rules the MBR . > > > > I am going to read the url http://www.johnlenin1.com/dual_boot.html > > > > and try. > > > > Another thing, how can I make a boot disk from Lm 8.0 installation ? > > > > Thanks, > > Jorge Giménez > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Oliver Thieke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 1:32 PM > > Subject: Re: [expert] Boot Loader > > > > > > > Hi Jorge ! > > > > > > > > > > new PC: configuration. > (fat32) > cdrom > 20,4 gb disk (fat32) > > > > > cd-rw > 60 gb disk (w98 + w2k + linux) > > > > something about a boot diskette but I can't do it on install . > > > > Any ideas? I know about how to install lilo if I have w2k. > > > > > > What exaclty is the problem ? > > > > > > There might be 2 possibilities: > > > > > > 1.) If you install the OS in a certain order it should be easy > > > going: > > > 1. w98, then 2. w2k and finally mandrake. I've done that on one > > > machine - works without problems. (Only in that order - w98 -> > > > mandrake -> w2k screws up) > > > > > > 2.) If w2k rules the MBR it's a different situation: > > > Look e.g. for: > > > http://www.johnlenin1.com/dual_boot.html > > > > > > If you boot from mandrake CD and follow the GUI installation > > > one of last steps ask you for creating the boot disk. > > > > > > Good Luck > > > > > > Oliver Thieke > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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