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Re: dual boot with lilo



On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:47:35PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> hi ya Mike
hey
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:46, Mike M wrote:
> 
> > > I have the following partitions shown with qtparted
> > > under a Knoppix boot:
> > > 
> > > 01 /dev/hda1 ntfs      active 20GB
> > > 02 /dev/hda2 fat32             2GB
> > > 03 /dev/hda3 extended         33GB
> > > 04 /dev/hda5 linux-swap        1GB
> > > 05 /dev/hda6 ext2             15MB  // for /boot
> 
> boot is NOT in the first 1024 cyclinders ...
> 	- your mb and kernels may or may not be able to
> 	get around the 1024 cylinder boundry
> 	( it won't boot )

That was the worry.  Gonna try the grub from CD zen
mentioned and keep the MBR intact for the moment.

I've been brushing up on MBR refreshing just in case.
> 
> > > 06 /dev/hda7 ext2             33GB  // for /
Thanks,
-- 
Mike

Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm.



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