Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-10 Thread Flávio Henrique
I suggest you model yours after mine, making the necessary adjustments. The syntax is not that hard to understand. Once you have updated your lilo.conf, post it here. Note, the append line will be completely different for you, so I suggest you skip these lines in

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-09 Thread bascule
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1?

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-09 Thread Flávio Henrique
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1?

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread ed tharp
let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. your error might be any part of /etc/lilo.conf, so post the whole

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:42 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# lilo Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# Could you kindly

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread Flávio Henrique
let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition.

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:30:58 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread Flávio Henrique
Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-08 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:31:50 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd

[newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread yankl
On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:27, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here...

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread John Drouhard
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:32:29 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Flávio Henrique
my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 Make this your windows entry in /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 Save the file, then (without the

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-07 Thread Russ
It worked for me. I installed Linux 9.0 on a brand new 60 gig HD then slaved my old 40 gig Win98 drive to that one, pointed Lilo to it and it booted just fine. My Win drive has since crashed altogether so I am totally Linux now. I did my editing in MCC Russ I guess it means you better post