hi ya Mike
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:46, Mike M wrote:
> > I have a laptop that I am trying to dual boot.
>
> should be easy :)
>
> Step 1: create a GRUB boot disk.
> Step 2: learn to boot from your grub boot disk.
> Step 3: boot from your grub boot disk.
probably edit /boot/grub/menu.list
- add your 2nd thing you wanna boot
> > I have the following partitions shown with qtparted
> > under a Knoppix boot:
> >
> > 01 /dev/hda1 ntfs active 20GB
> > 02 /dev/hda2 fat32 2GB
> > 03 /dev/hda3 extended 33GB
> > 04 /dev/hda5 linux-swap 1GB
> > 05 /dev/hda6 ext2 15MB // for /boot
boot is NOT in the first 1024 cyclinders ...
- your mb and kernels may or may not be able to
get around the 1024 cylinder boundry
( it won't boot )
> > 06 /dev/hda7 ext2 33GB // for /
> >
> > Will lilo as installed by Debian Woody 3.0r1 be capable
> > of finding /boot where it is shown above?
it will find it ... doesn't mean it will boot
> > I read that lilo need LBA support to get beyond the 1024
> > sector. Does lilo on Woody support LBA?
>
> Yes. Has for years. Such doco really needs to be removed.
you might want lba32 ... defined in the lilo.conf or grub
if grub doesnt boot into /dev/hda7, lilo probably wont either
in which case you'd need to boot off anything else
and tell it root=/dev/hda7 at its boot prompt
( boot off floppy or cdrom or network )
rest of zen's good comments zapped...
c ya
alvin
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