----- Original Message ----- From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Red Hat Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: Re: Unable to dual boot with Win98 and Linux
> On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 17:00, Mike Watson wrote: > > I have a home LAN setup using RH7.2 as my core machine for mail, webserver, > > caching DNS serving three other PCs (Wife's, my Win98 box and a laptop.) All well > > and good. > > > > Since I've been on vacation the last two weeks, I've done some experimenting, > > adding two additional HDs to my Win98 box to try out various versions of > > Linux---just to see how they worked. > > > > I've had a common problem with Caldera 3.1, Mandrake 8.1 and RH7.2. I cannot dual > > boot for Win98 and Linux. > > > > The HD layout is: > > > > /dev/hda Win98SE (18GB) boot partition /dev/hda1 > > /dev/hdb Linux (1.6GB) /boot /home > > /dev/hdc CDROM > > /dev/hdd Linux (8GB) swap(512MB) / > > > > The PC is a homebrew running a AMD Duron (800MHz), 192MB memory. > > > > The common lilo problem is lilo hangs at boot showing only "LI". I can boot > > using a boot diskette. With GRUB, the one time it was written to MBR (failed > > continuously to write a MBR afterward,) filled the screen with "@" until I > > manually rebooted. > > > > Previous, before I'd installed /dev/hdd and with RH 7.0, I could dual boot with > > lilo, not now. I currently have RH7.2 loaded and have installed all the updates > > and upgraded the kernel to 2.4.9-13. > > > > Anyone give me any hints way I can't dual boot? > > Can you post your lilo/grub.conf I missed the original post because I'm at work and only get home email spotty here. What does" /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda" show? If there are any pluses after the blocks allocated numbers, your geometry is screwy and both grub and lilo have problems with it. I had 2 disks like that for a year or 2 and finally fixed it. I had to manually partition and experiment with cylinders before I got it to work right again. Until it was fixed I used a bootdisk. It's reliable, but I feel a little more secure using bootdisk backup instead of primary. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
