John,
Thanks for the websites.....I'm there right now!
Cleve
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 15:03, John Hebert wrote:
> 10/25/2002 17:53, Cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >is the bootloader the same thing as etc\fstab?
>
> No. A bootloader is a program that handles multiple OS booting or booting
> from different kernels. Examples of bootloaders include LILO and Grub, and
> there are other I can't remember. The important thing to remember is that a
> bootloader does not depend on an OS to be running in order for it to run.
>
> Basically, a bootloader is a program that runs before any other programs run
> and allows the user to choose which OS or kernel to run next. It sits in the
> MBR (master boot record), which is the first 512 bytes of the boot sector
> (first sector) of a hard drive.
>
> For really geeky details, read
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html.
>
> The file "/etc/fstab" is the file system table for a UNIX-like box. See
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fstab for the man page on fstab. See
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.7.html for the "official" guidelines
> for UNIX-like filesystems.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> jh
>
> >On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 23:21, Douglas Adams wrote:
> >> You may want to make sure that your bootloader is pointing towards the
> >> right
> >> place also.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Douglas Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:17 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] dual booting issues
> >>
> >>
> >> > When you switch over to the other ide controller, what does it show up in
> >> > your bios as? Primary or Secondary master?
> >> >
> >> > I'm no guru, so I may be wrong, keep that in mind.
> >> >
> >> > I'm assuming that:
> >> > Primary Master = /dev/hda
> >> > Primary Slave= /dev/hdb
> >> > Secondary Master= /dev/hdc
> >> > Secondary Slave= /dev/hdd
> >> >
> >> > If I'm right (I may well not be), couldn't you change it in /etc/fstab to
> >> > point to /dev/hdc instead of /dev/hda?
> >> >
> >> > On a side note, I have an asus A7V266 board myself, which one do you
> >> have?
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Cleve Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > To: <[email protected]>
> >> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:18 PM
> >> > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] dual booting issues
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > It says this:
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> >> > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> >> > > /dev/hda10 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> >> > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount
> >> > > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 > >> > > 0
> >> > > none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
> >> > > dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> >> > > none /mnt/floppy supermount
> >> > > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync 0
> >> > > 0
> >> > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> >> > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/nt2 ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> >> > > /dev/hda11 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0
> >> > > 0
> >> > > none /mnt/zip supermount
> >> > > dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync > >> > > 0
> >> > > 0
> >> > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >> > > /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
> >> > > /dev/hda9 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
> >> > > /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Wow!
> >> > > Cleve
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 19:57, Douglas Adams wrote:
> >> > > > I'm not sure if I can be any help at all, but I'm curious, in your
> >> > /etc/fstab what hard drive does it say that your boot partition is on?
> >> > /dev/hda, /dev/hdc, etc.?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Is it possible that the IDE chain that your hard drive is connected
> >> > > > to
> >> > changes the naming of the hard drive, and linux isn't looking in the
> >> right
> >> > place when you switch it to the next chain?
> >> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > > > From: Cleve Allison
> >> > > > To: [email protected]
> >> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 6:38 PM
> >> > > > Subject: [brlug-general] dual booting issues
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Ok....here's the deal.
> >> > > > I have an Asus A7V motherboard. It runs a Duron 700 chip with the
> >> > 100/200 bus.
> >> > > > The way this motherboard was implemented is that there are two
> >> onboard
> >> > IDE controllers.
> >> > > > One is a 33/66 and the other is a 33/66/100, I think.
> >> > > > What happens is the upon booting up, it first looks at the ata66
> >> > controllers...then scans the ata100 controllers.
> >> > > > I have had to plug my hd cables into the ata33/66 controller to
> >> > actually install the OS or OS's.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > So....last night I received my new WD 100 Gig HD with the 8mb
> >> > buffer..pretty sweet.
> >> > > > had to plug it into the slower ide controller to install first
> >> > > > WinXP
> >> > and then MDK 9.0
> >> > > > Everything is cool so far. Took everyones advice and I have a huge
> >> > partition that both OS's can see...its great.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Here is the problem. When I moved the cables to the ata100
> >> > controller....and rebooted....I can boot into WinXP fine...but I cannot
> >> boot
> >> > into MDK9
> >> > > > If I move the cables back to the ata66 controller then I can boot
> >> into
> >> > either.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > So there must be something like the boot.ini file in Linux.......so
> >> > I'm guessing I need to edit it to do something different.
> >> > > > But if that is the case then why didn't I have to do the same for
> >> > boot.ini under WinXP?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Or am I barking up the wrong tree altogether? I really want to use
> >> > the faster controller since my new harddrive was designed to make use of
> >> it.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > TIA for any help you can provide,
> >> > > > Cleve
> >> > >
> >> > >
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