Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote: OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet. Re partitions:] /dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-01 Thread SnapafunFrank
Vincent Voois wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to whatever MS invention was in there makes ME

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-01 Thread Vincent Voois
SnapafunFrank wrote: OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet. Re partitions:] /dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended /dev/hda32938443412024652+

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-01 Thread SnapafunFrank
Vincent Voois wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet. Re partitions:] /dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended /dev/hda32938

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote: OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet. Re partitions:] /dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended /dev/hda3

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 04:42, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hmmm. First I had WinMe then using Mandrake9.1 I was able to repartiton the HDD for dual booting. Having got 9.1 settled I had to make a choice, dump WinMe and use the space for Linux storage or start again with another HDD. I still

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Graham Watkins
JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Asa Rossoff
Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread András Keszei
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:14, Asa Rossoff wrote: JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root,

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread SnapafunFrank
Asa Rossoff wrote: Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:26, JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 30 August 2004 11:14 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote: Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this by (I think) having the

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Vincent Voois
SnapafunFrank wrote: Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to whatever MS invention was in there makes ME a pretty invaluable

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:29, Asa Rossoff wrote: Vincent Voois wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: snip Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-30 Thread Asa Rossoff
JRH wrote: Hi all, Bit of a good one this! I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives. My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed. On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8: /home. The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-08-30 Thread Vincent Voois
Asa Rossoff wrote: When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.) Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is intact etc.