how about swapping the disks back?? On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:55:04 +1200 Julian Visch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 August 2003 23:37, you wrote: > > It makes no difference. - I have Win2K + Debian installed on a 30Gb > > hard drive with Win occupying hda1 and hda2/5 both NTFS and debian > > on hda3(swap) and hda4. > > > > But did you re-install win2k after swapping thedrive it is on from > > Drive 0 to Drive 1? > > If not this is almost certainly the problem - the boot loader knows > > it is on drive 1 (hdb) but win2k thinks it is on drive 0 (hda). > > Is there anyway to get win2k to think differently? > > > If this is the problem then you need to re-install both systems - > > Win2K first. Make sure that it is booting and running properly > > before installing linux. > > Sorry not sure what you mean, do you mean have both drives in, install > win2k on drive 2, with mbr on drive 1, then install linux on drive 1 > and overwrite mbr on drive 1 with lilo and then have both booting? > >
