Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:41:34PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > >>CW Harris wrote: [...] > >>>Why not just boot from a rescue disk (I think most/all install disks can > >>>be used as rescue disks also--check

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing"

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > >>I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating > >> > >Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" > > > > --Understood -

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
Patrick Moroney wrote: CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" --Understood - but I've successfully installed other machines. system on a

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" --Understood - but I've successfully installed other machines. system on a 200 gig drive and not

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" > system on a 200 gig drive and not having a lot of success. The > installation goes fine; I install Lilo in the MBR, t

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/970 Has a good discussion about this with some possible fixes. It would be intresting to learn what ends up working. If that doesn't work? http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20040428.024535.b600e7e7.html RRP Patrick Moroney wrote: After wiping out the debian partitio

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
After wiping out the debian partitions with debian's fdisk, I tried the XP installation cd - followed it's instructions, it failed & I lost everything on the harddrive. Using debians fdisk to mark the windows partition as bootable got the thing going again. Partition 1 is ntfs. fdisk /mbr cl

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
The strange one about this is that to restore the mbr in xp you are supposed to boot from the xp intallation cd, select recovery console and then run fix mbr and fix boot (might be fixmbr and fixboot, with no spaces) I wonder what fdisk /mbr did? Is partion 1 Fat32 or ntfs? RRP Patrick Morone

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
Partition 1: 35g - Windows XP (ick - for my wife & kids) Partition 2: 1g - / Partition 3: 1g - Swap Partition 4: 500m - /tmp Partition 5: 5g - /var Partition 6: 75g - /usr Partition 7: 20g - /home RRPotratz wrote: Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operati

Re: Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread RRPotratz
Patrick Moroney wrote: I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating system on a 200 gig drive and not having a lot of success. The installation goes fine; I install Lilo in the MBR, the system goes for a reboot and then I get the following errors upon reboot: request_module[

Dual Boot Problem

2004-09-08 Thread Patrick Moroney
I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating system on a 200 gig drive and not having a lot of success. The installation goes fine; I install Lilo in the MBR, the system goes for a reboot and then I get the following errors upon reboot: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-23 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:23:53AM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > Just a small update, since I'm sure someone will > someday search and find this thread ... > > I got it working. The grub configuration in menu.1st > was fine; windows had overwritten the MBR. I don't > know if it's possible, but I *m

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-23 Thread Richard Weil
Just a small update, since I'm sure someone will someday search and find this thread ... I got it working. The grub configuration in menu.1st was fine; windows had overwritten the MBR. I don't know if it's possible, but I *may* not have installed grub to the MBR the first time (I don't recall runn

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Derek Broughton
Chris Metzler wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bootloader. This happened to me before, but you said you installed > > Debian AFTER you installed Windows, so this shouldn't be an issue. > > I agree that it shouldn't be an issue; but that's very much what > this smells like.

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:58:12 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Based on the partition listing you gave in your original message, grub > should be set up as follows: > > Windows: root (hd0,0) > Debian: root (hd0,2) > > Keep in mind that in grub, partition 1 is actually 0, 2 is

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 14:09, Richard Weil wrote: > I don't have the machine in front of me, but I'm > nealry certain that I don't have "savedefault" set. I > believe my grub entry for win xp was essentially the > same as what is shown in the grub docs: > > title win > root (hd0,1) > makeactive >

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
d0,1), which is the /boot directory (and where grub lives). Perhaps this is wrong, but I interpret "root" in the context of grub to basically mean grub's root. Richard --- Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:35, Richard Weil wrote: > > I&

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:35, Richard Weil wrote: > I'm having a grub/dual-boot problem. > > I'm running Sarge with the kernel from the initial > install. The hard drive has 4 primary partitions: > > part 1 = win xp > part 2 = /boot --> marked bootable in par

grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Weil
I'm having a grub/dual-boot problem. I'm running Sarge with the kernel from the initial install. The hard drive has 4 primary partitions: part 1 = win xp part 2 = /boot --> marked bootable in partition table part 3 = / part 4 = swap I installed win XP into part 1. I then instal

Re: dual boot problem

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, August 31, 2001 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > I don't know if the windows 2000 boot loader is different than windows 9x, > > > but when I used to use windows 98, I had in /etc/lilo.conf: > > > other=/dev/hda1 > > >label=win > > > > Works just fine for w2k. > > > I am no

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:55:50PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: > > FAT32-thats how i formatted it. > here's a lilo.conf that i use on one of my debian boxes which has windoze on it as a dual-boot (windoze is on hda1, debian has a small /boot partition on hda2 and the root partition on

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Narasimhamurthy Giridhar
FAT32-thats how i formatted it. Narasimhamurthy Giri, Clemson University Computer Science Dept. --- Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. --- O

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:00:54PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: > I am not sure though cos yday I removed Win2k , put back Win ME and only > then did the dual boot work. Owise i used to get that > "inlcuding Win9" > "Fatal: no image installed" error. Havent still figured out the problem.

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Rino Mardo
what about "table=/dev/hda" ? - Original Message - From: Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:23 PM Subject: Re: dual boot problem > On Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Narasimhamurthy Giridhar
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: > > > | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I > made 2 > > > | [...] > > > | thing). There was no Wind

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Duane Curlee
On Thursday 30 August 2001 17:56, Giri X wrote: > Hi > I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 > partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the > installation of Debian, I am not able to boot into Win2k. I checked > /etc/lilo.conf. It had

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-31 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: > > | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 > > | [...] > > | thing). There was no Windows image. So now i can boot only into Debian but > >

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: > Hi > I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 > partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the > installation of Debian, I am not able to boot into Win2k. I checked > /etc/lilo.co

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:31:30PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: > | Hi > | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 > | partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the > |

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-30 Thread James D Strandboge
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:31:30PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: > | Hi > | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 > | partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the > | inst

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-30 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: | Hi | I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 | partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the | installation of Debian, I am not able to boot into Win2k. I checked | /etc/lilo.co

dual boot problem

2001-08-30 Thread Giri X
Hi I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the installation of Debian, I am not able to boot into Win2k. I checked /etc/lilo.conf. It had only 2 images, vmlinuz and old*.*(forgot the exact th

Re: Dual boot problem!

2000-06-03 Thread Dean
Hi Daisy Did you run /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf? Dean Daisy Nguyen Davis wrote: > I installed linux on apartition of 7GB using text installation and > fdisk instead of diskdruid because diskdruid limited the size of each > partition to 4GB maximum. > > I installed the PC with dual boo

Dual boot problem!

2000-06-03 Thread Daisy Nguyen Davis
I installed linux on apartition of 7GB using text installation and fdisk instead of diskdruid because diskdruid limited the size of each partition to 4GB maximum. I installed the PC with dual boot: winnt and Linux. When the system boot up, it only see Linux at the boot time. I was surprise that

Solved: win98/hamm dual boot problem

1998-08-21 Thread Michael Stenner
Thanks to all that offered suggestions on this one. For future use, I'm posting below the solution that worked (quite nicely) for me, since it wasn't posted previously. Michael Stenner wrote (Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:39:43 -0400 (

Re: win98/hamm dual boot problem

1998-08-19 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 19 Aug 98 13:39:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed >hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was >hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win >as hdb. THis was nothing new f

RE: win98/hamm dual boot problem

1998-08-19 Thread Bob McGowan
On Wed 19 Aug 1998, Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed > hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was > hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win > as hdb. THis wa

Re: win98/hamm dual boot problem

1998-08-19 Thread Shaya Potter
On Wed 19 Aug 1998, Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed > hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was > hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win > as hdb. THis w

win98/hamm dual boot problem

1998-08-19 Thread Michael Stenner
Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win as hdb. THis was nothing new for linux, so I started up linux and ran lilo with the fol