Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:14 am, Oden Eriksson wrote: Don't know, but I read something about this regarding the freebios project. Sorry for this, but you sent me a personal e-mail in swedish and I responded promptly - but my mail bounced (twice) and said it was not accepted. Your filter might not accept mail from my personal IP as the return address is at yahoo. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.9mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:14:05:04
Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
On Sundayen den 16 December 2001 13.02, guran wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:14 am, Oden Eriksson wrote: Don't know, but I read something about this regarding the freebios project. Sorry for this, but you sent me a personal e-mail in swedish and I responded promptly - but my mail bounced (twice) and said it was not accepted. Your filter might not accept mail from my personal IP as the return address is at yahoo. That's odd..., IIRC I put another address in the reply-to. I get so much spam from yahoo, and I got tired of it. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-9mdksmp: 11 hours 45 minutes | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +29C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4470 rpm, temp +28.5C
Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
Andrej, This sounds a bit like the problem I had on my old Sparc where I installed on the external drive and specifying the boot device did not help until I changed something in the lilo.conf... My failing memory thinks it was something like init=... If you don't figure it out, I'll be home later and can fire up the ol' beast and give you more accurate info... Pierre On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I have Windows on primary HD and Linux on secondary. BIOS support booting from the second drive. I'd like to get rid of boot loader and leave Windows on the first disk with its own loader and install lilo/grub on the MBR of the second HD. It does not work - loader does not find second stage (it probably finds but wrong one). I guess the problem is that BIOS plays nasty tricks with HD number when booting in this manner, but which? I tried to remap drives without much success. Any ideas? It is ASUS CUSL2 mobo with new Phoenix BIOS (this merge of Phoenix and Award). TIA -andrej
Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
On 20011214 Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I have Windows on primary HD and Linux on secondary. BIOS support booting from the second drive. I'd like to get rid of boot loader and leave Windows on the first disk with its own loader and install lilo/grub on the MBR of the second HD. It does not work - loader does not find second stage (it probably finds but wrong one). Can you post both lilo.conf and boot.ini from win ? TIA. -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.17-rc1-beo #1 SMP Fri Dec 14 09:58:53 CET 2001 i686
Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:24:53 +0100 J.A. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20011214 Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I have Windows on primary HD and Linux on secondary. BIOS support booting from the second drive. I'd like to get rid of boot loader and leave Windows on the first disk with its own loader and install lilo/grub on the MBR of the second HD. It does not work - loader does not find second stage (it probably finds but wrong one). Can you post both lilo.conf and boot.ini from win ? TIA. With an MBR present on the 1st hd to install an MBR on the 2nd hd the 2nd hd needs to be set as 1st boot device and then install lilo. Once lilo has installed you can use it to boot to either linux or win from this drive. That is what I would recommend. It allows you to boot to either OS, it makes no changes what-so-ever to the MBR of your 1st hd. It is both safer and easier than using the BIOS as a 'bootloader'. As well as the fact that using the BIOS in such a manner on a regular basis can cause severe and unrepairable damage to the BIOS itself and once its gone so is the MOBO. Charles
Re: [Cooker] stupid question - BIOS boot from second HD
On ðÔÎ, 2001-12-14 at 18:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: It is both safer and easier than using the BIOS as a 'bootloader'. As well as the fact that using the BIOS in such a manner on a regular basis can cause severe and unrepairable damage to the BIOS itself and once its gone so is the MOBO. Is it a joke? -andrej
