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On Sun 2 November 2003 19:40, Belinus wrote:
> I have a stage 1 install on my Celeron laptop. I followed the instructions
> on the install guide and I cannot get the installation to boot.
>
> The layout of the drive is as follows:
>
> /dev/hda1 - NTFS
> /dev/hda2 - ext3 (Mounts as /boot)
> /dev/hda3 - ext3 (Mounts as /)
> /dev/hda4 - Swap
>
> I want to use Windows XP's boot.ini as the manager since my machine is
> majority in Windows anyway. I used bootpart to make a file to load.
>
> Now, I can get LILO to work except that it will not boot my linux partition
> but will boot XP just fine. But when it does work, it breaks the Windows XP
> boot sector.
>
> I have gotten this configuration to work for Slackware 9 but I would prefer
> to switch to Gentoo for the portage advantage. I am guessing I am missing
> some sort of step that the LILO install for slackware does behind the
> installation interface.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
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