Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:10:24PM -, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote > Do you boot from a floppy, > or did you install XP on another partition than the first, > or is there some way to overwrite the mbr when XP is on the first partition > ? (lilo won't load because it doesn't like NTFS) > (I might try grub anyway) I have grub on the MBR, and XP installed on the 3rd partition of the first hard disk. Grub is setup to boot the XP partition using the chainload method. I would recocomend reading the grub documentation for your system, make boot floppys and giving it a shot. Worked really well for me. :) - Aidan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.velvet.net/~aidan/ aim:aidans42 http://www.livejournal.com/users/aidan_skinner/ finger for pgp key: 01AA 1594 2DB0 09E3 B850 C2D0 9A2C 4CC9 3EC4 75E1 ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Pin drop
Do you boot from a floppy, or did you install XP on another partition than the first, or is there some way to overwrite the mbr when XP is on the first partition ? (lilo won't load because it doesn't like NTFS) (I might try grub anyway) -- From: Aidan Skinner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 February 2003 15:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Pin drop On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:29:04AM +, Colin McKinnon wrote > pathhaving used lilo for years, I've now converted to grub. It reads > ext2/3, reiser and various other fs so you can boot up from a floppy > disk, and if you can remember where you parked your kernel start up your > original installation. I've not tried it on dual-boot box though. Grub works incredibly well for multi-boot setups, including chainloading and similar nifty things. I've sucesfully had rhl73, rhl80, freebsd and windows XP cohabitting under grub without pain. - Aidan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.velvet.net/~aidan/ aim:aidans42 http://www.livejournal.com/users/aidan_skinner/ finger for pgp key: 01AA 1594 2DB0 09E3 B850 C2D0 9A2C 4CC9 3EC4 75E1 ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish *** This email and any accompanying files are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, copy or disclose the content. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender by return email and delete this message. Thankyou for your co-operation. * ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:29:04AM +, Colin McKinnon wrote > pathhaving used lilo for years, I've now converted to grub. It reads > ext2/3, reiser and various other fs so you can boot up from a floppy > disk, and if you can remember where you parked your kernel start up your > original installation. I've not tried it on dual-boot box though. Grub works incredibly well for multi-boot setups, including chainloading and similar nifty things. I've sucesfully had rhl73, rhl80, freebsd and windows XP cohabitting under grub without pain. - Aidan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.velvet.net/~aidan/ aim:aidans42 http://www.livejournal.com/users/aidan_skinner/ finger for pgp key: 01AA 1594 2DB0 09E3 B850 C2D0 9A2C 4CC9 3EC4 75E1 ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Pin drop
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Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
ray wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 18:26, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote: Sounds interesting : i'll try Tom's root&boot. MS hasn't trashed anything I used to have a multi-boot NT4/NT5/Linux machine and used the NT boot manager (boot.ini) to choose. I found instructions at http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue36/larriera.html that looks as if it is the Without wanting to go down the 'my bootloder is better than yours' pathhaving used lilo for years, I've now converted to grub. It reads ext2/3, reiser and various other fs so you can boot up from a floppy disk, and if you can remember where you parked your kernel start up your original installation. I've not tried it on dual-boot box though. Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 18:26, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote: > Sounds interesting : i'll try Tom's root&boot. MS hasn't trashed anything > (yet), it just doesn't allow me to write Lilo on the MBR (NTFS), and so i > use a floppy to boot Linux from hdb1. Which i forgot at home. > Thanks, I used to have a multi-boot NT4/NT5/Linux machine and used the NT boot manager (boot.ini) to choose. I found instructions at http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue36/larriera.html that looks as if it is the method that I used. I also used some software to mount an ext2 partition into NT. -- rayH ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
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Sounds interesting : i'll try Tom's root&boot. MS hasn't trashed anything
(yet), it just doesn't allow me to write Lilo on the MBR (NTFS), and so i
use a floppy to boot Linux from hdb1. Which i forgot at home.
Thanks,
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From: Paul Millar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 February 2003 18:16
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Subject: RE: [Scottish] Pin drop
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:
> i have a question, but it's probably not very interesting : forgot
my boot
> disk at home, is there any way i could get Linux running ? If no,
that's
> alright, i'm asking out of curiosity. I do have partition magic
if that
> would help.
Depends what you're after.
If you're trying to get Linux up and running when MS has trashed
your MBR
then get a prebuilt kernel from somewhere and
dd if=kernel of=/dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1
(or wherever your root partition is). Although this does rather
require a
Linux machine up and running.
Alternatively, if you want a "full" Linux distro, try getting Tom's
root
and boot, install it onto a floppy and reboot.
HTH
Paul.
>
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RE: [Scottish] Pin drop
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote: > i have a question, but it's probably not very interesting : forgot my boot > disk at home, is there any way i could get Linux running ? If no, that's > alright, i'm asking out of curiosity. I do have partition magic if that > would help. Depends what you're after. If you're trying to get Linux up and running when MS has trashed your MBR then get a prebuilt kernel from somewhere and dd if=kernel of=/dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 (or wherever your root partition is). Although this does rather require a Linux machine up and running. Alternatively, if you want a "full" Linux distro, try getting Tom's root and boot, install it onto a floppy and reboot. HTH Paul. > > -- > From: Allan Whiteford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 February 2003 11:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Scottish] Pin drop > > willie fleming wrote: > > > > > > > > either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening. > > -- > > Best Regards > > Willie Fleming > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ___ > > Scottish mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > Or, we're all just sitting here, poised to reply. > > Thanks, > > Allan > -- > This sentence have three erors. > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > *** > This email and any accompanying files are confidential. If you are > not the intended recipient you must not use, copy or disclose the > content. If you have received this email in error please contact the > sender by return email and delete this message. > Thankyou for your co-operation. > * > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) GroupsDr Paul Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717A54C A9FC 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Pin drop
willie, did you just drop one? -Original Message- From: willie fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 11:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] Pin drop either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening. -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] Pin drop
i have a question, but it's probably not very interesting : forgot my boot disk at home, is there any way i could get Linux running ? If no, that's alright, i'm asking out of curiosity. I do have partition magic if that would help. -- From: Allan Whiteford [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 11:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Pin drop willie fleming wrote: > > > > either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening. > -- > Best Regards > Willie Fleming > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Or, we're all just sitting here, poised to reply. Thanks, Allan -- This sentence have three erors. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish *** This email and any accompanying files are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, copy or disclose the content. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender by return email and delete this message. Thankyou for your co-operation. * ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
willie fleming wrote: > > > > either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening. > -- > Best Regards > Willie Fleming > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Or, we're all just sitting here, poised to reply. Thanks, Allan -- This sentence have three erors. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
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