On Sunday 02 November 2003 02:40 pm, Belinus wrote: > I have a stage 1 install on my Celeron laptop. I followed the > instructions on the install guide and I cannot get the installation > to boot. > > The layout of the drive is as follows: > > /dev/hda1 - NTFS > /dev/hda2 - ext3 (Mounts as /boot) > /dev/hda3 - ext3 (Mounts as /) > /dev/hda4 - Swap > > I want to use Windows XP's boot.ini as the manager since my machine > is majority in Windows anyway. I used bootpart to make a file to > load. > > Now, I can get LILO to work except that it will not boot my linux > partition but will boot XP just fine. But when it does work, it > breaks the Windows XP boot sector. > > I have gotten this configuration to work for Slackware 9 but I > would prefer to switch to Gentoo for the portage advantage. I am > guessing I am missing some sort of step that the LILO install for > slackware does behind the installation interface. > > Thanks, > > Jon
We're all in the dark til you post your lilo config file.... -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
