On Friday 22 June 2001 10:33 pm, Michael Falzon wrote:
> Hi All
> ok i'm using mandrake 8.0 it running ok but i had slow
> started to run out of drive space on both windows and linux, so to
> fix this i have move my windows
> to a new drive so now linux is on /dev/hda and windows is now on
> /dev/hdb
> Lilo is booting up ok for linux, but not for windows ( non system
> disk or disk error ) if i till me bios to boot on the windows drive
> so boot's ok i did update lilo ( i'm sure i did not do it right )
> i just change the /dev/hda to b then "lilo -v"
> what im i not do right ?
While it's possible in some cases to run windoze on a partition
other than hda1, it's certainly not the norm, and almost always won't
work. Windoze won't tolerate it, Linux OTOH could care less where you
stick it ;)
Change the Windoze drive back to hda, and make the Linux drive hdb
(don't forget to change the jumpers ;) Also, there's a lot more to do
than just editing lilo.conf, 'fstab' and other config files for example
need to be changed. I believe 8.0 is smarter about this, so kuzu and
harddrake might be enough to pick up the swap on boot up (make sure
those services are enabled). Otherwise, the easiest thing to do is boot
your 1st Mandrake CD and choose expert/upgrade. Go thru the upgrade,
tell it you don't have CD 2, unselect any new packages, and say done or
cancel to things like dialup or network setup and the whole process
should only take a few minutes. Just make sure you do go thru the
bootloader configuration. Just go ahead and remove all the entries
prefaced with "old" during lilo setup. Boot Linux and make a new floppy
with (as root) 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)'
Now if Winblows still won't boot, you'll need to boot a DOS or
Windoze floppy and run 'fdisk /mbr'. Windoze should now boot, but lilo
will have been overwritten. So use the boodisk you made and boot 8.0,
then (as root) run 'lilo' and you should then be able to boot either OS.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
