Richard Watson wrote:
Hi - I have Windows XP installed on /dev/hda1. This drive is jumpered as the
master. I installed Gentoo on /dev/hdb (which is jumpered as slave) with the
standard partitioning scheme from the Gentoo Handbook.
I'm using LILO.
I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev/hdb1. It see
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:41:13 +1000, Richard Watson wrote:
> I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev/hdb1. It seemed to work (loaded my
> images OK) but gave a message saying the drive was not a master. When I
> rebooted it went straight into XP.
>
> I suppose I could use partition magic to create /boo
Richard Watson schreef:
> Hi - I have Windows XP installed on /dev/hda1. This drive is jumpered as the
> master. I installed Gentoo on /dev/hdb (which is jumpered as slave) with the
> standard partitioning scheme from the Gentoo Handbook.
>
> I'm using LILO.
>
> I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev
> Any advice would be really appreciated.
>
Here's what always works for me on a dual boot
linux/xp box w/ xp on hda and linux on hdb and lilo
doing boot duties:
Prepare lilo.conf as if it knows nothing about xp,
comment all the windows stuff out and install lilo to
hdb1. Next, mount a floppy an
Hi Holly, thanks for your reply
>>> Basically my question here is why exactly did you install the bootloader
>>> to hdb instead of hda?
I installed to hdb as I only have 1 NTFS partition on /dev/hda and don't
want to muck around with my XP install as my family will kill me if I muck
it up ...
>
Richard Watson wrote:
So far I've tried to fix it by removing
substituting lba32 / compact / linear from /etc/lilo.conf (yes I /sbin/lilo
and recreate the linux.bin file for the XP bootloader). The drive is a 200MB
Seagate.
I'm not a LILO kinda guy, but a 200 MB drive was more than likely mad
>>I'm not a LILO kinda guy, but a 200 MB drive was more than likely made
>> before LBA was invented. In the BIOS, switch it over to CHS mode
>> (usually "Normal") and see if that does anything.
My mistake ... the drive is 200GB ... Sorry ... Richard
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