100M? You can easily use 1/10 of that for /boot.
Heck, I use just 64M for /.
(I have /usr, /tmp, /var, /home, and /usr/local in separate partitions,
though.)
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
| partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot". You would have another
| (larger) partition with the mount point "/". Be sure to create a bootdisk for
| your system when the option appears. Then, during the LILO configuration,
| choose to install LILO on the first sector of the boot partition (NOT the MBR).
| Complete the install, but you will not be able to boot into Mandrake via the
| hard drive (yet). Now install windows. Then reboot into Mandrake with the boot
| disk. Now you should be able to manually update the /etc/lilo.conf file and run
| lilo, or other methods to update LILO (like Linuxconf, or even booting off the
| CD and running the Upgrade option this time). This time you may install LILO
| into the MBR if you wish.
|
| FYI, lately I prefer to keep LILO in a /boot partition since then it works very
| well with other boot managers like WinNT (which must be done) or the BeOS
| bootman. Sometimes you have to copy the bootsector to a file with the dd
| command and place it in the other OS's partition to make it function correctly.
| There is a WinNT (mini?-)HOWTO on doing exactly this procedure. Also the site
| www.mandrakeuser.org has step by step instructions on dual-booting with NT.
|
| Good Luck,
|
| -Jim O.
|
|
| On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| > Yes, Windows (any version) will overwrite the MBR on install, you just
| > install Windows first or reinstall lilo after installing another OS and
| > problem will be solved.
| > Michael Holt
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Trevor Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:40 AM
| > Subject: Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98
| >
| >
| > > Mage Grimau wrote:
| > >
| > > > I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and
| > > > linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or
| > > > the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed
| > > > Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to
| > > > reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no boot
| > > > record" and quits without doing anything useful.
| > > > /dev/hda1 is the 7M partition I mount as /boot. I
| > > > assume I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure
| > > > out what (besides adding Win98, that is).
| > > >
| > > > =====
| > > > Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed
| > > >
| > > > __________________________________________________
| > > > Do You Yahoo!?
| > > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
| > > > http://im.yahoo.com
| > >
| > > I could be wrong, but I believe that Windows writes its boot loader to
| > > the first active partition (usually c: or hda1). In your case, this is
| > > also the linux boot partition, hence your problem. If the other
| > > suggestions don't work, I suggest you let Windows have the first
| > > partition, even if it means having 2 fat32 partitions, with the /boot
| > > partition between them.
| > >
| > > I've done plenty of dual boot installs and never had a problem, but I've
| > > always had M$ os's on the first partition, and linux further up the
| > > disk, or on a second disk.
| > >
| > > Trevor
| > >
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