On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:31, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i've got a windows 2000 box that i want to dual boot (mainly as
> a learning platform for staff i'm training).
>
> originally, the box had FreeBSD and W2K on it. we installed
> Mandrake 9 (wiping out FreeBSD). LILO did not overwrite the
> MBR and instead we still had the FreeBSD boot loader.
But you did set the option to install it on the MBR, right?
>
> 1. we booted into the CD, went to rescue, and did the
> Restore boot loader thing. that didn't work.
>
> 2. we went into the console, mounted /dev/hda5 under /mnt
> (/dev/hda5 is where linux is, /dev/hda1 is w2k) and chrooted
> to /mnt. then we did lilo manually. it says it's installing itself,
> but when we reboot, the box still goes straight into windows.
> there's no hint that lilo exists at all. i realize that this is
> functionally equivalent to #1 :), but i decided to do it manually
> anyway, just to make sure.
>
> 3. i reinstalled linux in expert mode (the previous install was done
> by someone else, choosing defaults). still no joy.
>
> has anyone seen this (lilo saying it works, but it doesn't actually
> write itself to the MBR)?
>
> i'm having someone backup the data now before i try things that
> might destroy data (but short of wiping out W2K, no choice there,
> we have to keep it around for a bit longer).
>
> tiger
Hmmmm, i can't recall if i've encountered this thing...but here goes.
I'm just curious. you say win2k is in /dev/hda1 and linux is in
/dev/hda5 (which is on the extended partition), what's occupying your
remaining 2 primary partitions? (Makes me wonder why you can't overwrite
the MBR with lilo...as i've tried dual-booting XP+Linux-Lilo with
ease...is there something special about the 2k boot loader???).
Try this, if you have an available primary partition try using it as
your / root partition. or if you insist on installing linux on
/dev/hda5, at least create the /boot partition on any available primary
partition and make it active, and make sure you set the option to
install lilo on the MBR.
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