On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:24 pm, -JhAzEr- wrote:
> But you did set the option to install it on the MBR, right?
yes.
and with respect to a question from aris, yes, i did do fdisk /mbr
in dos. had to do that because lilo couldn't delete the old FreeBSD
boot loader. so i had to blow it away with dos fdisk :).
> 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?
there is no other primary partition. everything else is in extended.
> (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???).
no. i've dual booted w2k before too. must be something stupid
about this computer. i just looked at the partitions under linux
fdisk and it whines about inconsistencies, i think having to do
with where partitions start and end and it not liking those numbers.
i've forgotten just what the error is. i've temporarily given up on
this lilo problem for now. i'll revisit it when i can delete everything
on that box na lang. the problem probably has to do with the
inconsistencies in where it thinks partitions can start and end that
fdisk is whining about.
tiger
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