Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On Tue 10 Aug 04, 10:41 PM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
What was the drive configuration when you _installed_ w2k?Hi all,
I have a triple boot system with three drives:
* /dev/hda - 80 GB PATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hda5) * /dev/hde - 250 GB SATA drive with Win2k (root is /dev/hde1) * /dev/hdg - 200 GB SATA drive with Debian (root is /dev/hdg6)
lilo can boot my two Debian drives. When I try to boot into Win2k, a couple of extended ASCII characters (symbols like "yen" and "cents") get printed, but nothing else happens. Win2k doesn't boot.
Using fdisk, I've made sure that the 3 partitions on hde exist, hold the files they're supposed to hold, and hde1 (which holds the actual MS OS) is marked bootable.
The motherboard is an Abit NF7-S, and I'm using the sata_sil module, and other than this, have had no problems with it. SATA on Linux has been great. My BIOS is set to boot off of HDD-0. There's an option to boot off the SATA drives though.
As a last note, I tried Grub, and it didn't boot Win2k either. When I chose Win2k from the Grub menu, I was dumped into the Grub bash-like console and didn't go any further (I'm reasonably experienced with lilo, but a Grub newbie).
My lilo.conf follows, everything looks fine with it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
When Win2k was installed on hde, the system looked like:
hde (SATA): empty hdg (SATA): empty
In other words, the PATA drive wasn't in the sytem. I added that after
the Win2k install.
Thort so.
BTW, when I change the BIOS boot order from:
boot off HDD-0
to
boot off SATA
the sytem boots right into Win2k, and the boot looks healthy.
Thanks! Pete
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