Torrey
My reference to installing Lilo on hdc was if you were using SC to boot
your OSes not if you were going to use Lilo to do so and even then you have
to manually add it to SC.
I also have a triple boot system. My main boot loader is Grub. It gives
me the boot options of linux, safe, windows, or floppy. If I choose to boot
Windows it gives me the Win 2000 bootloader where I can choose to boot
either Win2000 or Win98.I installed in this order 1)Win98 then 2)Win2000 on
one hd and then 3)7.1 on a second hd.
There will be those who say they use it all the time, but Please if you
are running Win2000 and definitly if you are using the Win2000 bootloader Do
Not use fdisk/MBR it will wipe the 2000 boot loader. But that puts us
between a rock and a hard place because you can not remove(uninstall) Grub
from within Linux as you can Lilo you have to use fdisk/Mbr.
I have a couple more questions if you don't mind.
1) When you were running 7.0 which were you using as your main bootloader SC
or Lilo?
2) Did you install 7.1 as an upgrade or as a New Installation?
2a) If you did as a New install did you remove Lilo prior to the
installation and verify that Win would still boot. Or if using SC disable it
and see if Win would boot.
Even though you had disabled SC I still think that your miss-adventure was
caused by the fact that Grub needed to install in the drive space already
occupied by SC.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Torrey Peacock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade & MBR of HDA (Torrey)
> At 08:40 AM 7/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > A couple of question on your problem.
> >Did you run SCIN and remove Sys Command before you installed 7.1?
> >If not did you use the Sys Command Add OS Wizard when you installed 7.1?
> >
> >Sys Command and Grub are basicly the same type of boot program and will
Not
> >happily co-exist, and LILO if used with Sys Command needs to be installed
on
> >hdc Not hda.
> >
> >I have in the past used SC Deluxe but removed it from my system prior to
> >installing either 7.0 or 7.1 and I will be glad to help if I can.
>
> Its helpful to know that System Commander is probably not compatible with
> GRUB. I don't have good results with the OS Wizard, so I don't tend to
use
> it. SC was *disabled* - not removed - before installing Mandrake
> 7.1. According to the SC docs, it is possible to use with LILO on hda,
and
> this worked OK with Mandrake 7.0. Neither LILO nor SC could boot Linux
> with LILO on hdc - still needs to have some start-up files on the first
> hard disk, it seems. I also have Windows 2000 Pro, in its own partition,
> so this is really a triple-boot system, and that adds some complexities of
> its own. I am using SC 2000, with the latest patches.
>
> Torrey
>
>
