On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 14:54, David Talkington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chuck Mead wrote: > > >DT>>CG>> Well... I've been using grub for about a year and a half and have not > >DT>>CG>> ever had a problem like that. I also don't think that grub could have > >DT>>CG>> b0rked your partitions. IMHO your attempt to install XP was wrong-headed > >DT>>CG>> in the first place (have you completely taken leave of your senses?) and > >DT>>CG>> I have a deep suspicion that you got what you deserved for mucking > >DT>>CG>> around with it. :-) > >DT>>CG> > >DT>>CG>I fear you may be right. Not to worry, I am seeking help. :) POS locks > >DT>>CG>up anyway under windows (a nvidia driver issue) > >DT>> > >DT>>Bwaaaaaahahahahahahahaha! :-) > >DT> > >DT>redhat-list: Friendship ... sympathy ... a helping hand in time of > >DT>need ... and when all else fails, a good public asskicking. > >DT> > >DT>>=} > > > >Welp... it's apparent to me that in this case... EVERYTHING FAILED! > >(including any residue of common sense Chas may have had before he began > >this ill-advised and misbegotten journey into travail!)
The story gets worse. I tried again, this time with XP first, then Linux. All was fine. So I got bold and tried to throw windows 2000 back in the mix and it screwed things up royally. Basically it looks liek it screwed up the XP install and somehow thinks the XP partition is it's C: drive. weird. Oh and then it appears the floppy has crapped out on me. Perfectly good floppies that boot and are readable on other machines will not boot on this laptop now, or be read from windows 2000. > Well, XP aside, I think I'd smack him around first for using an > unfamiliar bootloader on a multiboot workstation. I have a > triple-boot (yes, I retired one of the _four_ systems that were on it) > laptop, and believe me, when you finally get Windows, OpenBSD, and Red > Hat all coexisting peacefully on one hard drive, you do _not_ > experiment with bootloaders unless you have a lot of free time on your > hands. ;-) I know how to make it work with LILO, and dammit, I ain't > gonna mess wit' dat. Well to be fair, it works fine on my old dual boot laptop, so I had no reason to believe it would be a problem. Anyway, I could have just left the original windows 2000 on this thing, but how much fun would that be? Now, also note that you only have one OS from Redmond in that set - like I have always only had. It appears to me that microsoft can't even get it's own OSs to play nice together when another OS has "spoiled" it's playground. I'm going to muster up the courage to try a simple triple boot (say RH7.2, XP, QNX) but with only one microsoft product sometime this weekend. No I really don't have the time to spend on this :) charles p.s. I never said I was the sharpest knife in the drawer, but dammit I defy you to challenge my stubborness! _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
