Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Me too. I wish people would be a little slower on the trigger > (particularly when they don't know for a fact what they are saying is > true). Okay. Sorry for the confusion. Still, most of what I said was taken straight out of lilo documentation as well as "linux+NT

RE: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread Kikta LCpl Jason M
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with LILO On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > I just finished installing Mandrake 7.0 and LILO won't work. Here is the description of the environment: > > there are two HDD: the first one already had Windows NT working, so I added

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 09:17 AM 02/03/2000 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >Sorry, Jean-Louis, but you can use LILO to load NT. I'm doing it now on my machine at work. I first installed NT on the machine, then I installed Mandrake 6.1, also on hda. I made no changes in lilo.conf, so "dos" boots to NT, a minor deception

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread Charles Curley
Sorry, Jean-Louis, but you can use LILO to load NT. I'm doing it now on my machine at work. I first installed NT on the machine, then I installed Mandrake 6.1, also on hda. I made no changes in lilo.conf, so "dos" boots to NT, a minor deception. The NT loader program (ntldr) is a real mode progr

[expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread Matt Stegman
Either way you go, you'll need both NT's loader and LILO. NT's is configured to stick to it's own partition. LILO can go that way, or be written to the MBR. If you decide to use NT's to choose between operating systems, you'll need to write the boot sector LILO is in (probably the boot sector o

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
ron peake wrote: > > Hello > This discussion is a little amazing to me because every day in my work I use LILO to >choose whether to boot > NT 4 Service Pack 5 or RedHat Linux 6.1. LILO works fine. > Regards, > Ron Sure, it is _possible_ to do it with lilo. However, _as told in lilo documentat

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread ron peake
--- Original Message - > From: Jean-Louis Debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:41 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with LILO > > > > > Jaime Batiz wrote: > > > >You should insta

Re[2]: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-03 Thread Istiqfar
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JB> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JB> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:41 PM JB> Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with LILO >> > Jaime Batiz wrote: >> > >You should install LILO in the first sector of the root partition >> > of Lin

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-02 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something. Just install lilo in the MBR (overwrite the > MS bootloader). In /etc/lilo.conf, put an entry to let you boot NT. Is > this not good for you? Won't work. You will be able to boot linux, but not NT. To boot NT you _have to_ use the NT boo

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-02 Thread Timothy Wojtaszek (CD)
ine, and only the boot for > Linux, so that I let windows NT handle the choice of OS at boot time? > > Thanks. > > Jaime > > - Original Message - > From: Jean-Louis Debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-02 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 02:43 PM 02/02/2000 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: >On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > > > I just finished installing Mandrake 7.0 and LILO won't work. Here is > the description of the environment: > > > > there are two HDD: the first one already had Windows NT working, so I > added a second HDD

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > I just finished installing Mandrake 7.0 and LILO won't work. Here is the description >of the environment: > > there are two HDD: the first one already had Windows NT working, so I added a second >HDD for Linux exclusively. The second HDD is the master device

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-02 Thread Bug Hunter
Original Message - > From: Jean-Louis Debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:41 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with LILO > > > > > Jaime Batiz wrote: > > > >You should install LILO

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-02 Thread Jaime Batiz
ED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with LILO > > Jaime Batiz wrote: > > >You should install LILO in the first sector of the root partition > > of Linux. > > > > So I specified hdc, for t

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
> Jaime Batiz wrote: > >You should install LILO in the first sector of the root partition > of Linux. > > So I specified hdc, for the bootloader. No, the root partition is hdc1, not hdc ... You must also alter your NT boot manager and add an entry for Linux, pointing to the 1st partition on the

[expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-01 Thread Jaime Batiz
I just finished installing Mandrake 7.0 and LILO won't work. Here is the description of the environment:   there are two HDD: the first one already had Windows NT working, so I added a second HDD for Linux exclusively. The second HDD is the master device in the secondary IDE When the Installa