> Bob, thanks a lot! Your guess was absolutely correct. I had a fat16
> partition at hda3 prior to installing w2k in a brand-new NTFS
> partition at hda1. It did install its installer into hda3 for
> whatever reason (without prompting). Pointing other to hda3 resolved
Not sure, but I remebe
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is just a guess on my part, but you may actually need to have
> "other=" pointing somewhere else. If you have support in your kernel
> for NTFS and/or FAT/VFAT, you could try mounting the Windows/DOS
> filesystems you have and look for the one which
NTLDR is a file which should be in the root directory of the "system"
disk (MS calls the disk with system files like boot.ini, NTLDR etc. the
system disk). This disk is the one the BIOS will look to first for
booting. This may _not_ be the disk which has the Windows files on it
(MS calls the disk
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> other=/dev/hda3 <-- notice hda3, make sure that yours points to the
> label=win correct partition..ie is win2k really on hda1?
That's funny. Is your /dev/hda3 an NTFS partition? I have the
following in my lilo.conf:
,[ lilo.conf ]
| bo
Hi Arcady:
Does lilo show up on the screen while booting? If so hit shift
to stop automatic boot-up. Then hit tab to see what choices are
available. hth Dean
Arcady Genkin wrote:
>
> Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would
> overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:15:55PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would
> overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and
> restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to
> multiboot into it using LI
> Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would
> overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and
> restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to
> multiboot into it using LILO as my main boot manager. Searching the
> web produced some
Just as a follow-up to myself, in case it matters, the partition where
win2k is installed is in NTFS.
--
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.
Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would
overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and
restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to
multiboot into it using LILO as my main boot manager. Searching the
web produced some suggestion
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