Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Ammon Cooke
apr From: Ammon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700 The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing LILO to write over the boot s

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
This is because you are not booting from the disk. You must boot from the Dos disk and then do a fdisk /mbr. Moose -Original Message- From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble How

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Nadin Merali
: This is because you are not booting from the disk. You must boot from the Dos disk and then do a fdisk /mbr. Moose -Original Message- From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a win98 one, I dont think it will be very happy to make winnt startup disk go to the hell and search for startup disk however

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Nadin Merali
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:20 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a win98 one, I

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
my system is set up and it works fine (however I am using GRUB). apr From: Ammon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700 The trouble is that I did i

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Kelly, Christopher
It is a common misconception... Don't worry. -Original Message- From: Nadin Merali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble SHIT I wish i knew before oh well On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Kelly

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Ammon Cooke
PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a win98 one, I dont think it will be very happy to make winnt startup disk go to the hell and search

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-29 Thread Ammon Cooke
:20 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a win98 one, I dont think it will be very happy to make winnt startup disk go

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-28 Thread Alan Rankin
using GRUB). apr From: Ammon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700 The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing LILO to write over the boot sector

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-28 Thread Ammon Cooke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700 The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing LILO to write over the boot sector on the windows drive. But the funny thing about

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-28 Thread Romanator
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700 The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing LILO to write over the boot sector on the windows drive. But the funny thing about the problem is that not even a Windows 2000 Pro

[newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-26 Thread Ammon Cooke
I have 2 hard drives, the first containing a Win 2K Pro installation, the second a Linux Mandrake 7.2. When I installed I put LILO on the first(windows hard drive), it supposedly would allow me to boot either Windows or Linux, but for some reason when I try to boot Windows the screen just

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble

2001-03-26 Thread kramer SETH
Make sure you install Mandrake second Windows will force itself to be the only bootable partition otherwise -Original Message- From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble I have 2 hard