If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander
from the web, and it's got a really nice partitioning/resizing utility
as well as a bootloader. It's gotten me out of a lot of trouble.
erylon hines wrote:
> On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote:
>
>> I have a dual boot computer with W2K and Mandrake 7.2 on it. The Windows
>> boots from drive C: and the Mandrake is on /dev/hdb5 . When it was
>> installing I was asked which drive the Linux was booting from and I said
>> /dev/hdb5. I then made a backup boot disk for the Linux. The problem is
>> that my computer will only boot Linux from the floppy and if I try to boot
>> it from the Lilo in the MBR I get an error message that /dev/hdb5 is not
>> bootable. How do I make my Linux partition bootable so that I won't need
>> to use the rescue diskette to boot it. Both W2K and Linux show up as
>> options in the lilo menu. I have checked the lilo.conf to make sure that
>> the Linux is pointing to /dev/hdb5 and have rerun lilo several times.
>>
>> Thanks. ...Dave
>
>
> Stop right where you are!! Don't hose anything--it's not that hard, I dual
> boot NT and W2K with Linux on lots of defferent boxes. From your
> description, it looks like LILO may be installed exactly where it should
> be--hdb5. My experience has been that NT/W2K doesn't like to boot from LILO,
> so you'll need to use the NT bootloader to boot and choose your operating
> systems. So, once you have your system booting W2K perform the following
> steps:
>
> Do everything in Linux as root
>
> 1. Boot Linux with your boot disk
>
> 2. Mount your floppy drive (its probably already mounted, but just in case
> it's not the command is #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> 3. Put a DOS formatted floppy in the drive and type:
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb5 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/boot.Lnx
>
> Remember, if LILO ain't on hdb5, you'll have to change the command to
> reflect where it actually is. What you did is copy LILO to a DOS floppy and
> named the LILO file "boot.Lnx"
>
> 4.Close Linux and reboot into W2K
>
> Now you need to write the floppy's boot.Lnx to the W2K "boot.ini"
>
> 5. Open Explorer and copy the boot.Lnx file to the root of your W2K drive
>
> 6. Using Notepad, open the "boot.ini" and add the line
> c:\boot.Lnx="Mandrake 7.2 "
> to the end of the file
>
> This is what mine looks like:
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=10
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINNT="Microsoft 2000 Professional" /fa
> c:\boot.Lnx="Mandrake 7.2"
>
> 7. Right click on "My Computer", click on "properties"--this brings up the
> System Properties window. Click on the "Advanced" tab and the "Startup and
> Recovery" button at the bottom. If the first check box is unchecked put a
> check in it and then set the number of seconds to display before booting into
> the Default OS.
>
> 8. With no floppies in the drive, reboot and you should see your operating
> system choices.
>
> For anyone using WINNT, you might have to write your boot.ini file, because
> your's may be blank. Then at step #6 you'll need to drop to an MSDOS prompt
> and type:
> C:>attrib -s -r boot.ini
>
> Then write your boot.ini file and reset your attributes by typing:
> C:>attrib +r +s boot.ini
>
>
