hi alan,
files as below
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> basculeok, now please see if all of the needed boot files
> are actually there in the boot directory and if they're actual
> files.
>
> /boot/map
yes
> /boot/boot.b
yes
> /boot/uk.klt
yes
> /boot/message
yes
> /boot/vmlinuz
yes points to /b
basculeok, now please see if all of the needed boot files
are actually there in the boot directory and if they're actual
files.
/boot/map
/boot/boot.b
/boot/uk.klt
/boot/message
/boot/vmlinuz
/boot/initrd.img
But I still think the best chance is to dual boot drom the IDE
drive.
Alan
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i just spotted it,
i've been helping a friend access his college email, i forgot to put all
the details back into netscape>edit>preferences, sorry for any confusion
bascule
Would not hurt to check it out!!!
don
I thought I knew that I knew what I thought
But now I know that what I thought I knew
Isn't what I know I think I thought I knew.
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:50:34 -0700 Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED
i have tried the linear mode, i waited to see if anyone had any comment
about possible data loss, in the end it didn't make any difference, i
did try something that should have occured to me before and that was to
disable ide and try to boot from scsi;
an odd thing - instead of an instant reboot,
basculeyou haven't yet tried the linear boot mode? I
thought you'd done that days ago and I just assumed it hadn't
worked. Let me know.
Alan
bascule wrote:
>
> thankyou,
> your point is well made,
> true a sizable proportion of 'my stuff' comprises stuff hoarded over the
> years that i c
basculethe active partition flag tells dos/windows what
dos/windows partition to boot. There can be only one active
partition per drive and it needs to have a bootable dos/windows
operating system on it. Making a linux native partition active
is incorrect.
Why, if you're using win98, do you
thankyou,
your point is well made,
true a sizable proportion of 'my stuff' comprises stuff hoarded over the
years that i could actually live without, nevertheless i would be
annoyed to lose it.
i have in fact used floppies to back up correspondence, finance records
etc.
the rest is now going to h
hi alan,
here are the results of fdisk:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 316 523 16707605 Extended
/dev/hda2 * 1 260 208841
I'm following this list hoping for a lead about a
totally different problem. I followed the topic of
"scsi boot linear mode" because it blended into the closest
topic I could find. Anyway, this response is because of
>if i don't get any advice not to try i will go ahead and try using this
>opt
basculethe image of your /etc/lilo.conf is fine. Sure I can
tell you what the p command is, print the partition table, but
the m command (help) will tell you the same thing as well as all
the other available commands. Don't worry about executing fdisk
because it doesn't change anything till
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, bascule wrote:
>anyway, i'm going to reboot and reinstall mandrake without the
>supermount option as recommended to me in another thread, see you in
>another lifetime -it's not pessimism- just the way things seem to be
>going at the moment!
Hi Bascule,
I know how you feel. I
hi alan,
here's my /etc/lilo.conf
copied to win partition and opened in notepad and pasted into here,
the formatting looks strange, i haven't rearranged it as i might get it
wrong, i hope you can interpret the squares, i think they must be s?
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=
further to my last post to you,
i'm interested to learn that partitions have info. regarding creation
date, all these years and i didn't know! i guess thats what come of
being totally self-taught; one doesn't know what one doesn't know!
anyway, i'm going to reboot and reinstall mandrake without t
hi again,
i've just sent off a reply to your other post on my odd partition
scheme, it's nice to feel that people are willing to spend time helping
others make their lives simpler!
yes, win98 boots fine off the ide drive,
i understand fdisk/mbr, it's saved me on quite a few occasions, but
after
basculeok, so the system boots just fine into windows whan
you set the bios to boot off the IDE drive, correct? If so, I'd
recommend that you:
1) use your floppy to boot up in linux and (as root) edit the
first line of your /etc/lilo.conf file from:
boot=/dev/sda
to:
boot=/dev/sda1
2) in
hi alan,
i boot using a boot floppy, i installed off the cd onto the first
partition of my scsi drive and installed lilo to the mbr of that drive
intending then to change the boot order in my bios to boot scsi first
and avoid booting from floppy but as i have described this doesn't work,
i do hav
basculethe 1024 cylinder limit translates to 8 gig, so 393
cylinders for 3.2 gig seems reasonable. No, you need not worry
about the 1024 cylinder limit, the problem only arises with
drives over 8 gig.
I have a scsi system but have never experienced the problem you
describe nor have I had to
has anyone any experience of using the 'linear' option with lilo when
booting from a scsi drive?
i have an ide drive and a scsi drive, setting my bios to boot from scsi
first used to work when i had win95 on it, but now i have put mandrake7
on its first partition and installed lilo to it's mbr i
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