Yes, windoze is VERY picky about where it wants it's system files. You can't just copy them over. The easiest way to do this, is just to let windoze have it's way.
If you are using win9x, give this a try: * Boot from a normal windows boot floppy (make sure it's the same version that your windows system is, ie, windows 98, make sure it's a windows98 boot disk) and run 'fdisk /mbr' (yes, the windows fdisk program). This is an undocumented switch that format's the master boot record, so in this case we are effectively removing lilo's boot sector install. * The from the same boot floppy, run 'sys a: c:' this will copy the system files from the floppy to the hard disk 'c:' in all of the right places. * Reboot and make sure windows works. That is all that should happen, we shouldn't see lilo at all at this point. * Now, boot from a Linux rescue cd or floppy. * Once you are up, 'chroot /dev/[your root partition]' * Check /etc/lilo.conf and make sure you are happy with it. * 'lilo' * Reboot and tell me how it is.... :) cheers, sach On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Erik Curiel wrote: > > Windoze keeps some kind of information about the system (I'm not exactly > sure what) in hidden files at the *end* of the drive (partition) it lives > on. Instead of using cp -a, which may miss those files, try dd and > specify that it copy every single block from the old partition to the new > (checking for bad blocks as it goes, of course). > > E > > > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, John Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > Ok, gurus, this got totally ignored at comp.os.linux.misc, so I hope > > somebody here has more information for me. > > > > I have a dual boot linux/win98 system and use lilo to manage the boot > > sector. My hard drive was going bad on me, so I bought a new one. I > > partitioned it with fdisk, set the win98 section to fdisk hex code > > 'c', which is FAT32, and formatted the win98 partition with > > 'mkfs.msdos -F32'. I copied the windows partition from the old to the > > new drive with 'cp -a' (tried tar too, same result). I also moved all > > the linux partitions over. Once I go the new hard drive set up, I > > booted with a floppy and ran lilo on the new drive for my dual boot > > system. Lilo comes up fine when I boot, and my linux side runs > > perfectly. However, when I try to boot into windows, it prints a > > about a dozen whacky ASCII chars (many in the ASCII range 127-255) to > > the screen and freezes instantly. To my untrained eye, this looks > > like a problem on the boot sector of the drive. > > > > Below I'll show the my lilo file and printout of the fdisk > > information. > > > > Any ideas what is wrong and how to fix it? Is the format command right > > for the fat32 partition. It went really fast, this made me > > suspicious. The MS formatter runs for much longer. I can see the MS > > partition when I mount it from linux. > > > > > > Thanks, > > John Hunter > > > > RHL 7.1 > > > > ---------------------- lilo.conf ---------------------------- > > boot=/dev/hda > > map=/boot/map > > install=/boot/boot.b > > prompt > > timeout=300 > > message=/boot/message > > linear > > default=linux249 > > > > > > image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.9 > > label=linux249 > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img > > read-only > > root=/dev/hda6 > > append="hdd=ide-scsi" > > > > other=/dev/hda2 > > optional > > label=dos > > > > ----------------------- partition info ------------------------- > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda2 7 1919 15366172+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > > /dev/hda4 1920 4866 23671777+ 5 Extended > > /dev/hda5 1920 2047 1028128+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/hda6 2048 2111 514048+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda7 2112 2366 2048256 83 Linux > > /dev/hda8 2367 3004 5124703+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda9 3005 4866 14956483+ 83 Linux > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bits mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > > > > -- /* Sach Jobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] %s/windows/linux/g */ i called him and he was like oh my god and i was like oh my god _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
