dear all, At one of the PC I have installed win98/win2k/Mandrake 9.0. While installing Mandrake 9.0 I have assigned to /boot a 10 MB space (/dev/hda7) and with the help of bootable floppy in /etc I compiled lilo and then issued the command as dd if=/dev/hda7 of=bootsect.lnx count=1 bs=512 then copied this file to /mnt/win_c. Though linux is booted without any problem using win2k bootloader (boot.ini) but it takes approximately 4-5 minutes. But when I try to load the linux with the bootable floppy my same linux is booted within seconds. Please guide where I am making a mistake. I have installed linux twicely but of no avail. A valuable guide for this will be appreciable. in nutshell why booting linux from bootable floppy is fast whether from hard disk's boot sector ie. /dev/hda9 is slow. Best regards MALKIAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! MALKIAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
