Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???
I've got a couple of machines which dual-boot Debian and NT (though on one
of them, NT is going away very soon). I initially had NT installed on
them, and later installed Debian, which if I understand correctly, is the
case here. Both will boot either OS just fine.
My server machine at home has no keyboard/monitor/mouse on it, so I
control it remotely over the network, using PCAnywhere. Because of its
lack of console, I have no choice but to use fdisk and/or Disk Admin. to
change which OS boots.
I'd like to know how LILO was installed. Did you put it into /dev/hda or
/dev/hda3? My advice is to never install LILO in the master boot record of
a machine which will be a multiple boot machine. Certain OS's (NT to be
specific) use the MBR to store information (the Disk Signature), which
supposedly causes no harm to the other OS's on the machine (except of
course if LILO was put into the MBR). I'm not sure if this is what is
causing your problem or not. If you do end up reinstalling, try placing
LILO into the superblock of the partition as opposed to the MBR.
Good Luck.
JDM
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Ryan King wrote:
> Okay, here's some more info that might help, or just convince you
> that I need to reinstall.
>
> When Linux boots, it recognizes my physical disk, and then later,
> yes, all partitions... hda1,hda2,hda3.
>
> Also, it is still type 83.
>
> And I looked at the error message again, and it actually says this:
>
>
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
>
>
> Just to let you know, I must confess I was starting to not-scorn
> Microsoft for the last few months, but this pretty much undoes
> most of that.
>
> I join the rest of you as arch-nemesis's to the corrupted empire!
>
>
>
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