Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot
On 4 May 2001, Forrest English wrote:
FE>
FE> 1. i tried to install win98 to play games
FE> 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times.
FE> 3. so, i put in my debian cd
FE> 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5
FE> 4. it boots up, all good...
FE> 5. login, re-run lilo
FE> 6. lilo seems to work fine.
FE> 7. i reboot
FE> 8. I9990305 is all that apears where i expect to see:
FE> MBR
FE> LILO:
FE>
FE> 9. so i use the rescue disk again. i try loging in and doing fdisk /mbr,
FE> it reports, unable to open mbr. uh, greeeaaaat....
FE> 10. reboot using the win98 cd to dos. fdisk /mbr. it doesn't complain
FE> 11. do the reboot, rescue, lilo thing again.
FE> 12. stare at I9990305 again.
FE>
FE> does anyone have any suggestions short of never install install windows
FE> _after_ installing linux?
either add 'install=/boot/boot.b' line in /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo, or run
/sbin/install-mbr and then rerun lilo, then reboot, and as long the win 98 is
on 1st primary partition and linux on 2nd primary partition, or extended
partition, you will not have problem.
I used to ran dual boot with windows 98 like that when the MB in my windows
machine decided to quit, though i had windows on entirely separate drive
[secondary ide master drive] and had this in lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x81
disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x82
disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x83
other=/dev/hdc1
label=win
table=/dev/hdc
map-drive=0x80 to=0x82
map-drive=0x82 to=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5
label=linux
what it does is it swaps hda and hdc before it attempts to boot the windows,
that way i didn't have to worry about anything.
if you have linux partition as the primary partition on the begining of the
drive you could use partition magic 6 or some free equivalent of it to move it
to the back of the drive and then create another primary partition for the
windows at the begining. Then install windows 98, reboot the machine with the
debian rescue disk, and run install-mbr and lilo, don't forget to add the
windows boot in the lilo.conf.
Dingo.
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