On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:23:02 +1100 (EST)
Michael Tokar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I go about deactivating the active partition on my 2nd drive?
with fdisk under linux, you use the 'a' command I think.
Are you saying there is a risk my partition info for my 1st drive will be
lost?
Not
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the active partition on the 2nd
disk is your problem. XP takes notice
of it, and will put it logically before
partitions on the first disk.
So, if you can, deactivate it from XP.
You may need to then assign the D: letter
to the right
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote:
Michael
If you use the debian install cd it should act as a rescue boot disk, you
DO need to select this option or it will wipe and reinstall your system.
Once it does you can start linux and then just type 'lilo' or '/sbin/lilo'
at the prompt and
Michael Tokar said:
Hey there people, this is my first post to slug! I am in need of some help
and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand/brain. Thanks for taking
the time to read!
Ok, here's the situation:
2 HDDs currently on my PC
Harddisk0
60gb drive
Partitioned into 2 drives
Hey there people, this is my first post to slug! I am in need of some help
and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand/brain. Thanks for taking
the time to read!
Ok, here's the situation:
2 HDDs currently on my PC
Harddisk0
60gb drive
Partitioned into 2 drives - 10gb (C - XP installed on
Micheal
These are just guesses.
Where is LILO on hda or hdb? Is it possible that your bios is pointing at
harddisk1 (hdb in LILO)as the boot disk?
otherwise it could be that the XP boot stuff is on partition hda1 rather
than at the mbr of hda so it is not visible to the boot process.
the
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote:
Micheal
These are just guesses.
Where is LILO on hda or hdb? Is it possible that your bios is pointing at
harddisk1 (hdb in LILO)as the boot disk?
I'm guessing LILO *was* located on hda, since after I ran 'fixmbr' on the
Harddisk0 MBR, LILO
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Michael Tokar wrote:
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Steven O'Reilly wrote:
otherwise it could be that the XP boot stuff is on partition hda1 rather
than at the mbr of hda so it is not visible to the boot process.
I'm guessing this could be the case, how can I change this?
the
Michael
If you use the debian install cd it should act as a rescue boot disk, you
DO need to select this option or it will wipe and reinstall your system.
Once it does you can start linux and then just type 'lilo' or '/sbin/lilo'
at the prompt and it should restore your previous config.
you can
I think the active partition on the 2nd
disk is your problem. XP takes notice
of it, and will put it logically before
partitions on the first disk.
So, if you can, deactivate it from XP.
You may need to then assign the D: letter
to the right partition after you do this.
Hopefully XP would do
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