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Stray Dog Joined: 02 Apr 2001 Posts: 3

I'm having trouble getting W2K and RedHat7 to dual boot. Let me explain my situation.

I have a 20GB HD, with Windows 2000 occupying 10GB of space on the primary partition /dev/hda1.

I installed RedHat7 using disk druid and setup /dev/hda2 as my /boot partition (16MB). And /dev/hda5 is my / root partition, and /dev/hda6 as my swap partition. I installed LILO on the first sector of my /boot partition.

Ok so now I boot into Linux using the linux boot disk I created during setup.

So just to verify, I do a cat /etc/lilo.conf and my "boot=" line says "boot=/dev/hda2". Now I do a "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" followed by a "dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin" command.

I put the linux.bin file at the C Undecided

root on my windows 2000 partition. I edit the boot.ini to say "c:\linux.bin="redhat7".

Now when I boot my computer it shows both OS's. But when I choose redhat7, nothing happens. I just get a white blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner of my screen. As a note, after I get the linux.bin file on my floppy, I notice that it's just an empty file. Is it supposed to be empty? Can anyone help me figure out how to do this, because I've spent 4 days trying to figure this out. By the way, I have read and re-read the "Dual bootling Win2k and linux" article at:

http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp

This was very helpful. However I just seem to be having a problem at the stage where I am extracting my LILO boot sector to my MS-DOS formatted floppy disk. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 3:46 am Post subject:

Everything is exactly as I had instructed but I forgot to mention the importance of one line "lba32" for whatever reason RH7 doens't seem to put that line in the "lilo.conf" file and many times puts "linear" instead. So replace "linear" with "lba32". Take a look at the picture in the article where I show the "lilo.conf" file for placement of the "lba32" line. Lba32 and Linear can not both be in the "lilo.conf" file. Linear is used for SCSI systems and Lba32 is for IDE systems. Sorry about the confusion.

Rover

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Stray Dog Joined: 02 Apr 2001 Posts: 3

That was it! I replaced linear with lba32 and now it works. Thanks for the help.

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2001 8:26 am Post subject:

another satisfied customer

Rover

Toilet bowls...the chalice of dogs everywhere.