John Richard Smith wrote:
>
> Hello George,
>
> Thanks,
>
> I am afraid there is no /etc/lilo.conf, drakeX failed to create one.
> So, just to prove a point to myself I did LM8.1 re-install all over again,
> but this time I insisted drakX install Lilo instead of Grub. The result is
> absolutely identicle.
as in you can boot w2k and not boot into linux? something is getting
trash bad like.
> Maybe, I thought, I seem to remember reading somewhere, that
> one of the bugbears of windows is that it insists on being the
> first partition on any hard drive.
w3.11, w4wg3.11, yes. w98, w98, no. on this and another box, w98 is on
second partition. w2k, me, nt, no personal experience with, do not know
or recall any post with statements to effect.
so... read over next before doing. i erred at start of last, this i
have stepped thru and should be correct.
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boot lm8.1 cd, at start screen, press 'f1' function, at command line
text prompt, enter 'rescue', press enter.
after boot, at command line;
cd /etc
cp fstab fstab.org
vi fstab
insert line;
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
[note: this sets up for following mount]
write and quit vi.
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
cd /mnt/disk/etc
cp fstab fstab.org
vi fstab
with exception of ' / ' for /dev/hda6,
check to be sure that spaces are before '/' as;
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode = 0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmps defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec, \
codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec, \
codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-2,umask=0,sync, \
codepage-850,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,syn,exec, \
codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
[note: '\' denotes line continued on next line]
to gain ready access to other partitions, insert these lines;
/dev/hda8 /hda/8 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda3 /w2k/c ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /w2k/d ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 /w2k/e ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda10 /w2k/f ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda11 /w2k/g ntfs defaults 0 0
write and quit vi.
cp fstab fstab.001
cp lilo.conf lilo.conf.org
vi lilo.conf
edit lilo.conf to something like following;
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
default=md81
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=100
message=/boot/message-graphic
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=md81
root=/dev/hda6
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda6
append=" failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda3
label=w2k
table=/dev/hda
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on what part of earth do you reside?
tc,hago.
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