> If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander URL? - Av - -- Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Trojan > Sent: Sunday, 03 December, 2000 23:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot > > > If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander > from the web, and it's got a really nice partitioning/resizing utility > as well as a bootloader. It's gotten me out of a lot of trouble. > > erylon hines wrote: > > > On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote: > > > >> I have a dual boot computer with W2K and Mandrake 7.2 on it. > The Windows > >> boots from drive C: and the Mandrake is on /dev/hdb5 . When it was > >> installing I was asked which drive the Linux was booting from > and I said > >> /dev/hdb5. I then made a backup boot disk for the Linux. The > problem is > >> that my computer will only boot Linux from the floppy and if I > try to boot > >> it from the Lilo in the MBR I get an error message that > /dev/hdb5 is not > >> bootable. How do I make my Linux partition bootable so that I > won't need > >> to use the rescue diskette to boot it. Both W2K and Linux show up as > >> options in the lilo menu. I have checked the lilo.conf to > make sure that > >> the Linux is pointing to /dev/hdb5 and have rerun lilo several times. > >> > >> Thanks. ...Dave > > > > > > Stop right where you are!! Don't hose anything--it's not that > hard, I dual > > boot NT and W2K with Linux on lots of defferent boxes. From your > > description, it looks like LILO may be installed exactly where > it should > > be--hdb5. My experience has been that NT/W2K doesn't like to > boot from LILO, > > so you'll need to use the NT bootloader to boot and choose your > operating > > systems. So, once you have your system booting W2K perform the > following > > steps: > > > > Do everything in Linux as root > > > > 1. Boot Linux with your boot disk > > > > 2. Mount your floppy drive (its probably already mounted, but > just in case > > it's not the command is #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > > > 3. Put a DOS formatted floppy in the drive and type: > > > > dd if=/dev/hdb5 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/boot.Lnx > > > > Remember, if LILO ain't on hdb5, you'll have to change the command to > > reflect where it actually is. What you did is copy LILO to a > DOS floppy and > > named the LILO file "boot.Lnx" > > > > 4.Close Linux and reboot into W2K > > > > Now you need to write the floppy's boot.Lnx to the W2K "boot.ini" > > > > 5. Open Explorer and copy the boot.Lnx file to the root of > your W2K drive > > > > 6. Using Notepad, open the "boot.ini" and add the line > > c:\boot.Lnx="Mandrake 7.2 " > > to the end of the file > > > > This is what mine looks like: > > > > [boot loader] > > timeout=10 > > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT > > [operating systems] > > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINNT="Microsoft 2000 > Professional" /fa > > c:\boot.Lnx="Mandrake 7.2" > > > > 7. Right click on "My Computer", click on "properties"--this > brings up the > > System Properties window. Click on the "Advanced" tab and the > "Startup and > > Recovery" button at the bottom. If the first check box is > unchecked put a > > check in it and then set the number of seconds to display > before booting into > > the Default OS. > > > > 8. With no floppies in the drive, reboot and you should see > your operating > > system choices. > > > > For anyone using WINNT, you might have to write your boot.ini > file, because > > your's may be blank. Then at step #6 you'll need to drop to an > MSDOS prompt > > and type: > > C:>attrib -s -r boot.ini > > > > Then write your boot.ini file and reset your attributes by typing: > > C:>attrib +r +s boot.ini > > > > > >
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