On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Steve Tarara wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD
> and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported,
> bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals
> except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs sound
> card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up.
> Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I
> set it up after the OS has been installed?
>
As root, type "sndconfig" from the command prompt. That should help
you get it setup. Which sound card is it? The PCI Soundblaster 128, I
think, is not yet supported, but other than that, most CL sound cards
are supported, even if you have to compile a driver for 'em.
>
> I am confused as to how to set up the dual boot
> option when the 2 OS's > are on different drives? Currently, when
> the computer is setup to boot > off of the drive containing Linux it
> gets to "LI" then freezes. If I > boot up off of the Linux floppy
> created during installation, it works > fine.
> Any ideas??
>
Please post your /etc/lilo.conf file here I had that same problem
until I realized that I had LILO written to the /boot directory. Duh!
it won't work that way (at least not well.) You need to make sure you
have lilo pointed towards /dev/hda, NOT /dev/hda1 or anything like
that.
Good luck!
John
