Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Wingate
I need some help dual booting STABLE & CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks with: STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:26:10PM -0800, Steve Wingate wrote: > STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) > CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and > backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. > > I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-01 Thread Sham Khalil
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote: > I need some help dual booting STABLE & CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks > with: > STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) > CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and > backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. > > I have

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Wingate
> > Try to install booteasy from STABLE, only from STABLE, to both > harddisk. don't install booteasy when install CURRENT > or try to recover boot easy from STABLE on the second hardisk as > described in the handbook > it works for me > > sham khalil I have tried this and it still doesn't boot t

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-01 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote: > I need some help dual booting STABLE & CURRENT. I have two SCSI disks > with: > STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine) > CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and > backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk. > > I have in

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Wingate
> "Nothing happens" probably means "its beeping but I can't hear it" :) > > If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to > reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong. Try zeroing > off the front end of the disk, partitioning it with DOS FDISK, then put

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-01 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Steve Wingate wrote: > > "Nothing happens" probably means "its beeping but I can't hear it" :) > > > > If that happens, its because boot0 and the BIOS can't figure out how to > > reach the partition, generally because the geometry is wrong. Try zeroing > > off the front end of

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Wingate
> > I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is > > really ready. > > -STABLE will have the same problem since its in boot0 and the BIOS, not > the OS on the partition its trying to boot. Actually STABLE will have no problems as it's been running on this box for over a

Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT

2003-11-02 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 20:38:36, s.wingate (Steve Wingate) wrote about "Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT": > >> I don't like the sound of that. I'll just stick with STABLE until 5.x is > >> really ready. >> -STABLE will have the same problem since