Re: multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 06:34:27 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: I wish to use grub2 to multi-boot the following systems: = Debian stable (Squeeze) on /dev/sda6 = Debian testing (Wheezy) on /dev/sda7 = Ubuntu (10.x) on /dev/sda8 This is a work machine and my

Re: multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [121110 13:18]: On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 06:34:27 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: ... I instructed the Squeeze installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda1. I instructed the Wheezy installer to install grub2 to /dev/sda7. I instructed the Ubuntu installer to install

Re: multi-boot+grub2+separate boot partition

2012-11-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 15:20:33 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: If my understanding of grub is correct, the execution of grub-install /dev/sda: (1) writes the various grub files to the /boot/grub directory of the partition corresponding to the operating system which executes

Re: multi-boot cfdisk warning: is it broke? How do I fix?

2011-07-21 Thread lee
Charles Blair c-bl...@illinois.edu writes: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder fdisk -l /dev/sda gives: Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280

Re: multi-boot cfdisk warning: is it broke? How do I fix?

2011-07-20 Thread Joe
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:45:59 -0500 Charles Blair c-bl...@illinois.edu wrote: I tried to set up a dual boot of windows and linux from the installer. The linux part works, but windows 7 starts to boot and then takes me back to grub. I am sufficiently happy with linux that I was

Re: multi-boot mess: have I destroyed Windows 7 ?

2011-05-29 Thread Mark
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Charles Blair c-bl...@illinois.edu wrote: ** THE MESS * I recently tried to set up a multi-boot with windows 7 and squeeze on a laptop. When started, grub displays /dev/sda1 Windows 7 /dev/sda2 also Windows 7 /dev/sda3 Windows 7

Re: multi-boot mess: have I destroyed Windows 7 ?

2011-05-29 Thread Freeman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 05:10:40PM -0500, Charles Blair wrote: ** THE MESS * I recently tried to set up a multi-boot with windows 7 and squeeze on a laptop. When started, grub displays /dev/sda1 Windows 7 /dev/sda2 also Windows 7 /dev/sda3 Windows 7 recovery

Re: multi-boot mess: have I destroyed Windows 7 ?

2011-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2011 05:10 PM, Charles Blair wrote: [snip] We can only pray that you have... grin -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749 -- To

Re: multi boot ( GRUB )

2006-02-14 Thread andnovelli
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 01:07, Fred Ulisses Maranhao wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:45:00 +0100 tombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pessoal, ja tentei de tudo. Fiz varias mudancas no meu menu.lst mas nao estou conseguindo fazer esse boot do ruindao funcionar. Sao dois hd's separados. Gravei

Re: multi boot ( GRUB )

2006-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tombs escreveu: Pessoal, ja tentei de tudo. Fiz varias mudancas no meu menu.lst mas nao estou conseguindo fazer esse boot do ruindao funcionar. Sao dois hd's separados. Gravei primeiro o ruindao no hdb com o hd master desligado, e depois fiz a operacao inversa. Quando liguei os dois hds,

Re: multi boot ( GRUB )

2006-02-13 Thread Fred Ulisses Maranhao
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:45:00 +0100 tombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pessoal, ja tentei de tudo. Fiz varias mudancas no meu menu.lst mas nao estou conseguindo fazer esse boot do ruindao funcionar. Sao dois hd's separados. Gravei primeiro o ruindao no hdb com o hd master desligado, e depois fiz

Re: multi boot

2004-03-05 Thread Jean-Michel OLTRA
Le jeudi 04 mars 2004, Arnaud a écrit... bonjour, Est ce que vous auriez une solution à mon problème faire passer ton lilo.conf préciser le type de W$ que tu utilises. -- jm

Re: multi boot

2004-03-05 Thread r.debian
Bonjour a vous tous, membre de la mailing liste J'ai deux disk dur, l'un est sous windows et l'autre sous linux. J'aurais aimer faire un multi boot afin d'éviter d'éteindre à chaque fois le pc quand je veux basculer de l'un à l'autre J'ai brancher mes deux disks comme il faut et il boot

Re: multi boot

2004-03-05 Thread Patrick Miane
Bonjour Avec win mis en 2eme disque apres son install En ajoutant a la fin de lilo.conf : ## other=/dev/hdb1 #ou bien other=/dev/hdc1 selon le cas label=2000_Pro table=/dev/hdb #ou table=/dev/hdc map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 ## et relancer lilo Ca doit marcher

Re: multi-boot

2004-01-20 Thread Chris Searle
Kevin == Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:28:27PM +0100, Chris Searle Kevin wrote: Hi Chris, why not make a boot disk? man mkboot -Kev Machine has no floppy drive. Nor CD-ROM (unless I undock one of the hard drives). Nowhere to put the disk to boot

Re: multi-boot

2004-01-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:28:27PM +0100, Chris Searle wrote: Hi Chris, why not make a boot disk? man mkboot -Kev signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Multi-boot

2002-11-08 Thread geodata
- Original Message - From: Cédric BUSCHINI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user-french@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:34 PM Subject: Multi-boot Bonjour, Est il possible d'installe une debian en multi boot avec un systeme windows (dsl) ? oui c possible (meme pour

Re: Multi-boot

2002-11-08 Thread f . riton
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:34:50 +0100 Cédric BUSCHINI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salut pour faire cela j'utilise XOSL qui est de plus gratuit tu peux le trouver sur telecharger.com l'installation se passe sous dos avec la commande install une foi installer il se lance au demarrage tu n'as plus qu'a

Re: Multi-boot

2002-11-08 Thread Guillaume Membré
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 19:34, Cédric BUSCHINI wrote: Bonjour, Est il possible d'installe une debian en multi boot avec un systeme windows (dsl) ? oui bien sur que c'est possible. si oui est ce que c est comme pour une autre distri et auriez des conseils ou astuces? tu peux utiliser lilo

Re: Multi-Boot Problem

1999-08-23 Thread Jack Lee
configuration files for lilos in your replying letter? Thanks so much :) Jack From: Jean-Yves Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jack Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Multi-Boot Problem Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:02:37 +0200 Jack Lee wrote: ... I can't solve

Re: Multi-Boot-Loader

1999-08-23 Thread Cheshire
..my system is running nt/98/storm/debian with debian as my primary loaded with lilo. I'd suggest you do the same and check out the lilo man page to see how easy it is to set up all your booting needs. :) |cheshire| -Original Message- From: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian

Re: Multi-Boot-Loader

1999-08-22 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: Currently, I'm tryign to install Oracle8 SQL Server, Linux version. In the Detailed Installation Instructions prividered, in Chapter 2, section Tasks to Perform as the root User, it asks to configure LINUX kernel Interprocess Communication (IPC) parameters. It then says the default

Re: Multi-Boot Problem

1999-08-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have the same problem, but I have two partitions for Dos/Dr-Dos and then Linux like: hda1c: Dos 6.22 + WfW 3.11 hda2d: DR-Dos 7.03 with TCPIP and DJGPP hda3Linux-Root/Boot hda4Linux-Swap hda5Linux-User I have tried to boot with

Re: Multi-Boot Problem

1999-08-22 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
Jack Lee wrote: ... I can't solve the problem because I find /dev/hda2 is out of the 1024 cylinder area. HiJack (;-), I would suggest you to use loadlin instead of lilo (see /usr/doc/lilo/) Otherwise, if you intend to change your partitions, I had no problems with 1024 cyl lilo BUT

Re: Multi-Boot-Loader

1999-08-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi michelle try the following lilo config file for dual boots...( n-boots ) see also /usr/doc/lilo* # # /etc/lilo.conf # # #oot=/dev/fd0 boot=/dev/hda # # map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 # image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda3 #

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dale Smith; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: I have read about this in one of the HOWTO's. This is a real pain for me because my NT partition is ntfs, and I can't use linux tools to copy the boot sector. I'm using the same setup, that is

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-26 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Dale Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use the NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your linux partition and have it write the boot

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-26 Thread Dale Smith
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:54:57 +0100, you wrote: You can use bootpart: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm It generates such chain loaders. Then the boot-sequence looks like: nt thingie bootpart lilo bootsector on your linux disk That's *EXACTLY* what I was looking

RE: Multi-Boot

1998-03-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
What you want to do has been done by others. I don't use nt and debian together so I can't help there. There was a recent thread on the list that covered this. In the meantime, you can use the boot floppy that you make during the install process. How you partition a system depends a lot on

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can add some comment... Personally, I have the following setup: Adaptec 2940UW 3 x 4.3 GB UW SCSI HDDs 3 x 128 MB swap, one per drive 128 MB root partition on /dev/sda RAID-0 across

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I think you mean SCSI ID, not LUN. Logical Unit Numbers are a sub-division of a single SCSI device. Few SCSI devices use them, although an example would be a SCSI CD-ROM jukebox. Anyway, if you cared to read Manual.txt.gz which comes with LILO you'd see that the limitation on booting from other

RE: Multi-Boot

1998-03-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lewis, James M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] | How you partition a system depends a lot on what you are going to do | with it. My system is just a local workstation and looks like this: [snip] | Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can | add some comment...

Re: Multi-Boot

1998-03-25 Thread Dale Smith
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:47:56 -0600, you wrote: So, you may indeed be able to do this. In any case you should be able to use the NT Boot Loader to start linux. This is in fact what I do. Set up LILO in your linux partition and have it write the boot block there. Eg., if your linux partition were