Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
Thanks, this is very insteresting. I had assumed that multi-boot NT/linux could be done ony from lilo, now I learn that it can be done with the NT loader. Just one question on the dd command below: the first parameter in reality is if=/boot, right? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele, you have to perform these steps: - dd if0/boot of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1 - copy linux.bin on the root partition of your XP/NT/2k system - update your boot.ini appending the following line: c:\Linux.bin=Linux Note that at that stage (while in the boot loader) NT boot partition is C regardless on how how windows names it. rebboot and you'll have the nt bootloader booting both O.S. Hope this helps. Ciao Leonardo. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Leonardo, we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot partition, as reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux coexistence on the same disk (in case of W95/98-linux coexistance it reccomended to put lilo in MBR instead), but I admit I did not understand why. What's this difference between W2K and W98m in terms of bootloader? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
Raffaele, sorry it was a mistake, the command is dd if=boot device* bs=512 count=1 of=linux.bin (*ie. /dev/xxx). I do have that configuration and it works fine. Actually you don't ever need lilo (unless you load initrd or are feeding kernel parameters).If this is your case just uninstall lilo (lilo -u) and go through the steps I wrote you. Ciao. Leonardo. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Thanks, this is very insteresting. I had assumed that multi-boot NT/linux could be done ony from lilo, now I learn that it can be done with the NT loader. Just one question on the dd command below: the first parameter in reality is if=/boot, right? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele, you have to perform these steps: - dd if0/boot of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1 - copy linux.bin on the root partition of your XP/NT/2k system - update your boot.ini appending the following line: c:\Linux.bin=Linux Note that at that stage (while in the boot loader) NT boot partition is C regardless on how how windows names it. rebboot and you'll have the nt bootloader booting both O.S. Hope this helps. Ciao Leonardo. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Leonardo, we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot partition, as reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux coexistence on the same disk (in case of W95/98-linux coexistance it reccomended to put lilo in MBR instead), but I admit I did not understand why. What's this difference between W2K and W98m in terms of bootloader? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Do you want to dual boot your machine or only mount your ntfs partition? If you want to mount it you have to compile the ntfs module at least and then go with modprobe or insmod. That doesn't depend upon Lilo. Leonardo. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I'm helping a friend install RedHat7.3. I realize now how good the MDK distributions are! We are trying to have a dual boot with W2K. The problem is that after RH installation, LILO does not show the W2K option. No problem, we think, let's boot in linux and insert in lilo.conf the additional entry, but it doesn't work: lilo refuses to upgrade the MBR because it does not see the partition hda5 (were W2K is). Looking better, we see that hda5 is not mounted at all. So we mkdir /mnt/windows and add a new entry in fstab with appropriate parameters. But now mount /mnt/windows reveals that ntfs is not build into the kernel. We try an insmod ntfs, but the module cannot be located: it's not present in the /lib/modules/.../ directory. :-( My understanding is that lilo refuses to upgrade the bootloader because it first tries to validate the lilo.conf accessing the partitions there indicated, but in our case fails because there is no ntfs support in the kernel and exits. It there a way around this mess? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
That's what I thought, and I did exactly as you write. But, running lilo to update the bootloader, we got the error message partition not found or something alike, and the bootloader was not changed. Thanks for the link, I was quite surprised seeing that ntfs is not included in RH. I guess MDK sets expectations too high. Anyway, the problem is partly solved: reinstalling RH, we noticed that there was an error in the way we configured the bootloader, and that's why the windows entry did not show up in the lilo menu. thanks again, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irregardless of whether the kernel has NTFS built into it, you should still be able to get lilo to recognise the partition and boot to it. Your lilo should have an entry like: other=/dev/hda5 label=windows table=/dev/hda You HAVE to rerun lilo after modifying the /etc/lilo.conf - but this should work. If you want to mount the partition, you can find the NTFS modules at: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ They require no recompiling of the kernel - just run the RPM package suitable for your kernel and you're all set. Just remember that writing to NTFS partitions is NOT a good idea under anything than Windows... HTH! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)
Leonardo, we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot partition, as reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux coexistence on the same disk (in case of W95/98-linux coexistance it reccomended to put lilo in MBR instead), but I admit I did not understand why. What's this difference between W2K and W98m in terms of bootloader? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
