Hi,
No - I didn't do anything special. I started out with two partitions on my hard drive. The first one contained Windows 98 and the second contained Windows 2000. I decided to keep the Win 2000 partition so I clicked on the first partition, deleted it and then pressed auto- allocate. When I did that the Mandrake installer allocated Linux partitions to the area left by the first partition. If the Installer had said something like "Warning: if you want to keep Windows make sure to keep it in the first partition" I would have kept the Windows 98 and deleted the Windows 2000 partition. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): > >hi, > > just curious, did you do something special with the way you partitioned your >harddisk? your linux boot image points out to hda5 which is the first logical >partition but your windows entry points out to hda2. i know that this is >normal >on some circumstances especially if the disk is a product of Ghost or >something >similar but here in the office 9 windows pc broke down due to some >problem with >Ghost. > > as i have said, this is just to satisfy my curiosity and no help is included >;-) > >ciao! > >Doug Lerner wrote: > >> This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see >> anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over >> with both Windows and Linux? >> >> boot=/dev/hda >> map=/boot/map >> install=/boot/boot.b >> vga=normal >> default=linux >> keytable=/boot/jp106.klt >> lba32 >> prompt >> timeout=50 >> message=/boot/message >> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw >> image=/boot/vmlinuz >> label=linux >> root=/dev/hda5 >> append=" devfs=mount" >> read-only >> image=/boot/vmlinuz >> label=failsafe >> root=/dev/hda5 >> append=" devfs=mount failsafe" >> read-only >> other=/dev/hda2 >> label=windows >> table=/dev/hda >> >> Thanks, >> >> doug >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): >> >> >On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: >> >> I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It >> >> doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the "Windows" option from the >> >> startup screen. >> >> >> > >> >Maybe, post your lilo.conf >> >Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. >> >We might see something, else its difficult to help >> > >> >Gerald >> > >> >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 > >-- > >"Programming, an artform that fights back." > >============================= >Anuerin G. Diaz >Design Engineer >Millennium Software, Incorporated >25/F Equitable-PCI Tower >ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. >Ortigas Center, Pasig City > >Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 >Fax# 638-3079 >============================= > > > >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
