My last attempt to get answers was maybe too long. Let's shorten it up. I have possibly done a mis-upgrade from RedHat 7.0 to 7.2 on a dual boot system that has Win98 on the other partition and was originally partitioned for Linux using Partition Magic, which I have now removed from the system. (Read my other messages if you want the details)
I can boot from a boot floppy. But I've been unable to boot with Grub (booted from a floppy) and am unwilling to try to run either Grub or LILO to load the partitioning info to the MBR because I am afraid of losing the still-good boot to Windows. When I run grub and then boot from it, a few lines scroll by on the screen terminating in mxt_scan_bios: enter after which the machine is hard-frozen and must be turned off to be rebooted. No disk sounds are heard before this happens. 1) Can anyone tell me what the mxt_scan_bios: enter line means? 2) During the upgrade, I got this message: "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders." Can anyone explain what these "fixable" problems are and more importantly, how to fix them? 3) Can anyone tell me what the RedHat installer does when you say you want Grub to be your boot loader (and how to achieve the same results outside of the installer)? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
