RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
I just installed Linux on a SCSI only machine and it is running, though I've got a resolution problem at the moment. Alan had told me that the only real requirement was that the / "root" slice had to be withing the first 1024 blocks of the hard drive. Once I moved the install to the first partion, it worked just fine. You may want to revisit your install procedures and look at that, too. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: Another problem I am having is when I try to run KDE ( and I might be doing it wrong to begin with...) is that when I type kde from the prompt it trys to load and gives me "Xserver could not load" and dumps me back to the prompt. You're going about it all wrongtype "startx" (minus quotes) to load Xwindows and KDE should be the default Window Manager. :-) Also, you only need to put your LILO in /dev/hda. Also, you may have a problem due to the fact that the "off the shelf" kernel doesn't support booting from SCSI, which may explain why it's trying to write more than just LILO to the "C:" drive. John
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
"Karnos, John G" wrote: I just installed Linux on a SCSI only machine and it is running, though I've got a resolution problem at the moment. Alan had told me that the only real requirement was that the / "root" slice had to be withing the first 1024 blocks of the hard drive. Once I moved the install to the first partion, it worked just fine. You may want to revisit your install procedures and look at that, too. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: Another problem I am having is when I try to run KDE ( and I might be doing it wrong to begin with...) is that when I type kde from the prompt it trys to load and gives me "Xserver could not load" and dumps me back to the prompt. You're going about it all wrongtype "startx" (minus quotes) to load Xwindows and KDE should be the default Window Manager. :-) Also, you only need to put your LILO in /dev/hda. Also, you may have a problem due to the fact that the "off the shelf" kernel doesn't support booting from SCSI, which may explain why it's trying to write more than just LILO to the "C:" drive. John Johnglad you got it running, but you are mis-quoting me. "the / "root" slice had to be withing the first 1024 blocks of the hard drive" not quite what I said, which was: "I make my /boot partition 16-24 megs in size." "your /boot partition needs to be totally located within the first 1024 cylinders of whatever drive that it is on" First off, it's the first 1024 cylinders, not blocks (what's a block?). Secondly, I was referring to a /boot partition, not the / "root" partition. A boot partition is where the kernal is stored. If you don't create a distinct and seperate /boot partition, then /boot will automatically be created during the installation process as a subdirectory of your / "root" partition. One reason to use a /boot partition is it is small and can be located before the much larger / "root" partition on the disc. When placed like that it is likely to not cross the 1024 cylinder boundary even if placed at the beginning of the second half of a 10 gig drive, which is why I recommended that you create one. You probably didn't to move anything, just partition the last half of your drive like I originally recommended. Alan Alan
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote: John: I got it working... without a manual (too lazy to print it I guess) I got it figured out reading some of the stuff on the Newbie list. I figured out that I could configure the boot and everything I needed with linuxconf. However, the problem I had was I didn't know how it was suppose to look. I was thinking I was suppose to get a menu and I don't I just get the LiLo boot prompt. when I figured that out I was on my way. Would be nice to have a menu to get it started. Is there a way to do that? You mean get a menu at boot? Well, sorta. I think if you hit "tab" it'll bring up the various things you have configured in your lilo.conf.
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
John: You mean get a menu at boot? Well, sorta. I think if you hit "tab" it'll bring up the various things you have configured in your lilo.conf. Ya.. that is what I was looking for ... I know about the TAB to bring up the options... but I was thinking that there was a message file you could load with LILO to make a menu... I will have to check into it and see where it was.. I know it was in the linuxconf boot section for Lilo somewhere.. not sure which option. Jess ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: Another problem I am having is when I try to run KDE ( and I might be doing it wrong to begin with...) is that when I type kde from the prompt it trys to load and gives me "Xserver could not load" and dumps me back to the prompt. You're going about it all wrongtype "startx" (minus quotes) to load Xwindows and KDE should be the default Window Manager. :-) Also, you only need to put your LILO in /dev/hda. Also, you may have a problem due to the fact that the "off the shelf" kernel doesn't support booting from SCSI, which may explain why it's trying to write more than just LILO to the "C:" drive. John
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
On 7 Oct, Jesse Royall wrote: I have been trying to install Linux on my system. Tried several different things and I either get Win98 or Linux. I downloaded the Mandrake .iso and burned my CD and made my boot disk/setup disk. I can get it to install and run Linux. But I can't get it to dual boot. What am I missing here? Check the archives, or read the lilo.conf man page. [user@localhost user]$ man lilo.conf to read the man page. The mailing list archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ There you can search for 'dual boot and lilo' or something similar. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
