Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-09 Thread tpfeife1
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:07:31AM -0400, Mike M wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:40:01PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, Mike M wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting your instructions. > > Now I know where to look for them. > > The mkisofs is a thing of wonder. Th

Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-09 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:40:01PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, Mike M wrote: > > Thanks for posting your instructions. Now I know where to look for them. The mkisofs is a thing of wonder. The man page is huge and full of mystical concepts. I am not qualified to

Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, Mike M wrote: > It worked! Great to hear! > > > install grub on a floppy (perhaps it can be installed onto a bootable CD > > > if you don't have a floppy drive, if so, that will be just as useful). > > > > CD, no floppy > > A bit of a pain to make a bootable grub CD

Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-08 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:33:32PM -0400, Mike M wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:21:37AM +1000, 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. > > Ste

Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-08 Thread Alvin Oga
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

Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-08 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:47:35PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya Mike hey > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:46, Mike M wrote: > > > > I have the following partitions shown with qtparted > > > under a Knoppix boot: > > > > > > 01 /dev/hda1 ntfs

Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-08 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:21:37AM +1000, 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 gr

Re: dual boot with lilo & Linux on slave drive

2000-08-09 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> Can lilo installed on MBR of the 2nd HD handle dual boot at boot time? I don't see any reason it coultn'd be; can you force the machine to boot from the second disk ? but you can handle dual boots even with lilo in MBR of 1st hdd... -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; I

Re: dual boot with lilo & Linux on slave drive

2000-08-05 Thread Torrey Peacock
At 01:02 PM 8/4/00 +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: Can lilo installed on MBR of the 2nd HD handle dual boot at boot time? If yes, how? I'm not an expert, but I couldn't get that configuration to work. It really seems best to have LILO on the first drive - I made a /boot partition on hda, and edited

dual boot with lilo & Linux on slave drive

2000-08-04 Thread Wilson Yau
Can lilo installed on MBR of the 2nd HD handle dual boot at boot time? If yes, how?