A long time ago (Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:27:23PM +1100), in a galaxy far far away, Shane Anderson wrote : > Not another Newbie! > > Sorry guys, comes with the territory of using an OS that is growing rapidly > in popularity :) > > Also, I'm a Mac user :) Now now, be nice :) > > I am actually Shane Anderson, the Mac EvangeList List Dad > <http://www.macevangelist.com>. > > Anyway, I have just bought myself a nice new 900MHz Athlon and 2 HDs and I > wish to run a dual boot system, Win98SE and Linux (Corel Dist.). > > I have had a problem that my searches on the web have discovered is common, > I get 01 01 01 01 01 all over my screen after installing Linux on the 2nd > drive, which is the slave of the main bus. The only way to get back to Win98 I think that the problem here is that the Linux partition is >1024 cylinders. LIO needs the kernel to be below 1024 cylinders to be able to load it. Two solutions: 1. Download and install a new version of LILO. This could allow you to load the kernel from a high cylinder. Since your box is so new, I am assuming that the BIOS would support the stuff to load high cylinders(still haven't really understood the details of this yet). I have tried it on some older boxes and it would not work. 2. Use this only if 1 does not work coz it is..... well.... ugly. Make a teeny partition (6mb or so) at the begining of the hardisk. Make the mountpoint of this /boot. This will ensure that the kernel will always be below the 1024th cylinder. > is to reinstall the darn thing. Now don't give me **** about running Ermmmm... you actually need'nt. Just use the fdisk uitility on every Microsoft Recovery Disk: FDISK /MBR This would wipe out Lilo but would still leave Linux on the drive. > Windows, I probably dislike it more than the majority of you, but it has > become a dreaded necessity to ensure my web sites look OK on a Windoze box, > and using VPC is just not good enough, and besides, VPC doesn't overcome the > gamma differences. What choice do most of us have? I just hope Wine is getting better by the day. > > So, I am fully prepared to wipe everything I have. I have only been using > Win98 for a few days. Besides, using Windoze I should get used to having to > constantly reinstall everything from scratch, right!? :) Yeah! Especially if you listen to MS Tech Support. They probably have a recorded voice that tells to to reinstall the machine. But if you know your registry shit well, it might save you a few reinstalls. But it is good to reinstall every year at least, the darned OS just runs slower and slower as time goes by. > > So what do I do? Oh, and remember, I am a Mac user. The GUI rules! :( > > Apologies if this is not an appropriate Q? for this list. > > Oh, any Mac loving SLUG want to come out and give me a hand?? Feel free, I > have SUSE Linux 7.0 running on a Dual 500MHz G4 here :) No it doesn't > support the 2nd CPU :( but it was worth tempting you, and it is _VERY_ Could you recompile the kernel for that? I have never ventured away from i386 territory, so I am not sure. > quick anyway. > > Shane Anderson > The Mac EvangeList List Dad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 78719415 > http://www.macevangelist.com > Ph. +612 8802 5023 > Fx. +612 9475 4355 > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
