On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:10, David wrote: > Brian Parish said onto me: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > |On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:54, Nashib .J. wrote: > |> Hi everybody, > |> Can someone help me, I have partitioned my harddisk > |> with two primary > > fat32 for windows98 installation and used the free space for M.Linux > installation. I installed M.Linux first on the hard disk. My question is, > will the Lilo boot loader recognise windows98 when I will install it in the > futur. > > |I see some other replies, but as Windows was not there when you > |installed Linux, just running lilo may not be enough. > > <snip> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Not to be argumentative, but I have just (within the last two days), done > just that. > > I had Mandrake 8.2 on a machine, and then installed Win2K Server (for > training purposes only, I assure you). But here's the hitch.......*some* > versions of windoze require a reboot before the install in complete. And > this reboot is *before* the installer writes the MBR. (Read: install could > not complete since the MBR was still intact and pointed to Linux) > > So, what I had to do was (this was mid-install of win): > boot into Linux, > backup lilo.conf, > create a blank file named lilo.conf, > run lilo, > and reboot. This booted into and completed the win install. > > Then: > boot from MDK CD1, > F1 for more options, > repair boot loader, > reboot into Linux, > append the windoze info to lilo.conf, > and run lilo again. > > Done. Now, wasn't that simple? ;) > > HTH > Dave
Another damn good reason for installing windows first. But surely the alternative to this palaver would be to boot the Windows restore floppy. Type "fdisk /MBR", then do your windows install... thus allowing the reboot into windows during its install.
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