bascule....ok, so the system boots just fine into windows whan
you set the bios to boot off the IDE drive, correct? If so, I'd
recommend that you:
1) use your floppy to boot up in linux and (as root) edit the
first line of your /etc/lilo.conf file from:
boot=/dev/sda
to:
boot=/dev/sda1
2) in a console (as root) type /sbin/lilo
3) boot up in windows and install BootMagic
BootMagic will overwrite your hda mbr with it's own boot
manager, but this can easily be reversed in two different ways:
1) uncheck the activate box in the BootMagic configuration
program
or:
2) boot up with any floppy that boots into dos mode (like a
windows rescue floppy) and contains the dos fdisk program and at
the command line type:
fdisk /mbr
Either 1 or 2 above will restore your hda mbr to regular windows
status.
Anyway, BootMagic should find both your Linux and windows
installations and allow you to boot either one of them. If not,
the above instructions will restre your hda mbr to work as
before.
Alan
bascule wrote:
>
> hi alan,
>
> i boot using a boot floppy, i installed off the cd onto the first
> partition of my scsi drive and installed lilo to the mbr of that drive
> intending then to change the boot order in my bios to boot scsi first
> and avoid booting from floppy but as i have described this doesn't work,
> i do have other os' namely win98 on the first partition of my ide drive
> but i don't want to mess with the mbr of this drive until i have a linux
> setup that i am happy with, not the case so far.
>
> i had to install linux before changing the boot order because my system
> doesn't give an option to boot floppy>scsi only scsi>floppy
>
> bascule
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > bascule....the 1024 cylinder limit translates to 8 gig, so 393
> > cylinders for 3.2 gig seems reasonable. No, you need not worry
> > about the 1024 cylinder limit, the problem only arises with
> > drives over 8 gig.
> >
> > I have a scsi system but have never experienced the problem you
> > describe nor have I had to use the linear option. Does your
> > system boot up using your boot floppy? When you say you 'put
> > mandrake7 on its first partition', does that mean you copied it
> > from somewhere else or you installed it from an installation
> > cd? Do you have other os's on your system?
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > bascule wrote:
> > >
> > > has anyone any experience of using the 'linear' option with lilo when
> > > booting from a scsi drive?
> > >
> > > i have an ide drive and a scsi drive, setting my bios to boot from scsi
> > > first used to work when i had win95 on it, but now i have put mandrake7
> > > on its first partition and installed lilo to it's mbr i just get an
> > > instant reboot at the point where one would expect to get the lilo
> > > prompt, i have seen references to the 'linear' option in the mandrake
> > > install but it warns that this could lead to data loss.
> > >
> > > using partitionmagic partinfo program tells me that the scsi drive has
> > > only 393 cylinders but as it is 3.2 gb i guess this is a translated
> > > value so i am not sure if the necessity for lilo to reside on a
> > > partition within the first 1024 cylinders is a problem here,
> > >
> > > if i don't get any advice not to try i will go ahead and try using this
> > > option but i'd welcome advice from anyone who knows about it as i have
> > > important stuff on other partitions on this scsi drive and currently my
> > > backup tape drive is dead.
> > >
> > > bascule
