Ray Uotila writes: > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:10 pm, John Bowden wrote: > > OK, sounds good. > > What do I set my boot device to? Right now it is: " /dev/hda" . Enable APIC > is > checked. > > Thanks, --Ray. > >> Ray Uotila writes: >> > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 07:01 pm, John Bowden wrote: >> > >> > Hello again, John, >> > I get this: >> > >> > Primary Master: WDC W800BB-00FJA0 13.03G13 >> > Primary Slave: WDC W800BB-00FJA0 13.03G13 >> > Secondary Master: WDC WD1600JB-00REA0 20.00K20 >> > Secondary Slave: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GAS-4082B A201 >> > >> > >> > The fresh install of XP is on the new 160gig hard drive. >> > Thanks again, --Ray. >> >> SNIP >> Ok its safe to do the boot from floppy and fdisk /mbr as xp is >> on the secondary master. then boot into mandriva. Go into the >> control centre - boot - set up how the sytem boots - and see if >> the boot loader will pick up the xp installation. >> >> >> >> Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest >> intentions and he was going to blow them up ! >> --------------------------------------------- >> Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com >> Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! >> ____________________________________________________ >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? >> Go to http://store.mandriva.com >> Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com >> ____________________________________________________ > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________
Those setting sound about right. The boot device line tells lilo (not grub as I said before), the boot loader to check the first hard drive for its config files. The enable apic line is to do with the way your mother board controls things like power management, sleep and suspend. If you click the "advanced button" and check the box with the clean /tmp ..line the system will delete all the files from the /tmp folder at each boot. It saves your /tmp Dir (folder) from filling up. On the specify ram line you can tell the kernel exactly how much ram you have if linux does not see all your ram. This is a setting for older mother boards that had issues with memory addressing large amounts of ram. Don't forget that if you have an on board graphics card it will be sharing some of the system ram. Click "next". On this page you should see the various boot options for linux and one for 98. You can remove or modify the 98 one to point to your xp installation. hda1 is the first harddrive (primary master) - first partition.Hdb is the second hard drive (primary slave) and hdc for third hard drive (secondary master) Hda1 is first drive first partition, hda2 is first drive second partition etc. Now the problem is where did xp load its boot record, at I'm guessing but I would think when xp was installed it also noticed the 98 boot record so installed its record on the secondary master. As long as you don't mess with the linux entries it will still boot into linux and let you fiddle the xp boot settings if the xp records are on a different disk. When you ran the fdisk command from the floppy, if you got no error messages then it should have worked, though it don't tell you it was successful ! Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up ! --------------------------------------------- Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
