RE: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-31 Thread Abhay Watwe
Mark: Thanks for recommending bootpart. I used it successfully and it did the trick. It also indicated that I needed to use the LBA flag in order to get dual boot working. I can now successfully boot into linux using my XP boot loader. Thanks to all who sent in comments and suggestions.

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:45:32 -0500, abhay wrote: Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much appreciated. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html#OSBOOT -- paul It's working as coded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-30 Thread Robert Storey
Questions about GRUB get asked a lot. I usually refer people to this article, which is still a pretty good primer even though it was written a few years ago: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html GRUB is really good, and it's worth your time to learn how to install it and use

XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread abhay
Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. I made a dos boot CD using instructions at bblcd and used loadlin to boot into

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:45:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also tried GRUB with GRUB installed on /dev/hda which is my first hard disk. Upon rebooting the words GRUB were printed at the top left corner of the screen and the machine simply hung after that. To install grub I would do

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much appreciated. Just out of curiosity, is there some reason you HAVE to use the XP boot loader? I've found it much easier to use LILO as my bootloader and just

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-17 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, : snip So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same error. snip You said that you got a bunch on 0s and 7s filling up the screen. Could you look and see which letters it prints at the start (LIL or only L or a whole bunch of LIs)?

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-17 Thread Roberto Hernandez
Once upon a time that problem happens to me. The solution was pretty easy indeed: 1. Boot from a rescue floppy or CD with rescue root=/dev/hd## 2. remount /dev/hd## to admite write 3. edit lilo.conf to meet your needs 4. Write LILO to /dev/hda, do this regardles of where is your linux system AND

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:16:12AM -0700, Abhay Watwe wrote: Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much appreciated. Have you tried the HOWTOs?

XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Abhay Watwe
Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine does not have a floppy drive, so I rebooted and used the Debian CD to

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, : Hi: Hi Abhay, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine does not have a

RE: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Abhay Watwe
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:39 AM To: debian-user Subject: Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, : Hi: Hi Abhay, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed

XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Abhay Watwe
Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine does not have a floppy drive, so I rebooted and used the Debian CD to

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread David Z Maze
Abhay Watwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine does not have a floppy drive,

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-16 Thread Horst Penschuck
Abhay Watwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harshwardhan/All: I made a mistake in my original message. I used the following command to make linux.bin dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same error. Abhay I used