Re: Dual-boot failure with 2.4.8
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 08:59 pm, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am running both NT4.0 and Linux (Debian Woody). I recently
> installed the 2.4.8 kernel. Since it ran fine from a floppy,
> I copied the bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8
> Ran lilo
> dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:
do you have boot=/dev/sda2 in lilo.conf?
>
> Then under NT copied the bootsect.lnx to C:\
do you have the entry in boot.ini to point to bootsect.lnx?
>
> and when I reboot and select linux
>
> it starts up ok but hangs up after LI
it happened to me when I forgot to run lilo before dd, or lilo pointed to
something else than the place I dd'ed from
>
> This used to work with the earlier kernels. Am I doing something
> wrong or is the procedure changed for the new kernels?
>
> The processor is a Pentium III Xeon.
it is probably an oversight on your side...
>
> In my home computer, (Pentium II) I did the same thing, but there
> I was successful!
>
> Right now I boot up from the floppy disk, but I'd like to
> get away from that.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
cheers, dragos
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