Hi, I've installed RH 5.2 now 4 times and haven't been able to figure out my booting from hard-disk problem. I've got NT4 on the 1st partition of a SCSI hdd and am installing linux on sda5 with the swap on sda6 on that same drive. The first time I did this I didn't realize I would wipe out my MBR and didn't have a recent one saved and really screwed myself up. Managed to recover all my data but it was a hard lesson. I didn't realize that NT insists on owning the MBR and that Lilo would overwrite it. Okay, now I know. So my solution has been to follow "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" and have NT boot mgr boot linux and direct the bootloader to install on sda5. But it won't work after many re-tries on making linux bootsectors and re fdisking and re-lilo'ing. I'm able to get into linux with a boot floppy and I love it and want to migrate away from all MS products. But I'd really like to boot without the floppy. And I'm not crazy about the loadlin idea because I don't have a DOS partition. The RH install failed to make a boot-loader. And that was the case no matter where I placed the boot record -- on sda or sda5. So that was the first red flag. And I'm out of places to look on what the problem might be. I've also checked my CMOS and SCSI BIOS settings and can't find any suspect settings though I've tried a few variations. If there's a way for LILO to own the MBR and still boot NT, I'd be happy with that as well. But I'm under the impression that NT won't boot that way. And unfortunately I still need NT until I can get fully up and running in Linux. The basic problem seems to be in the RH install of the bootloader. <?> Everything else went fine and works. I've d/l'd the 2.2.3 kernel. But I have no idea if this might solve the problem. <?> Oh, by the way, my disk has FEWER than 1024 cylinders. Any help greatly appreciated! thanks, Jamie The Faunt School of Creative Music http://www.pacificnet.net/~faunt
