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From: Andrew Williss <bigwill@riverland.net.au>
To : David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:39:52 +1030
Re: Lilo Help
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David Drury wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have done a new RH6.1 install onto the second hard drive of a PC also
> running WindozeNT on HD 1. Having carefully read several HOWTOs, it seems
> that lilo can boot WinNT on HDD 1 whilst residing on HDD 2.
>
> The install of RH froze shortly prior to the completion of the install
> (the performing of the post install procedures, before
> creating the rescue disk). Rebooting, boots to lilo, then to linux, but I
> get a Kernel panic, unable to mount the root FS.
>
> Since this install is just for mucking around with, the kernel panic is
> noat a problem at the moment now, but Lilo is. I tried using the NT
> install disk to restore the MBR (NT is on an NTFS partition taking the
> entire first HDD), but it didn't, so I get out with the handy LinuxCare
> boot CD ROM, and after remounting the HDD in RW mode, edit /etc/lilo.conf
> to add in an entery for Win NT on the primary HDD.
>
> I then go to run lilo to intialise the canges using the following
> command. HDb1 is my linux partiton, and mounted on the linuxcare disk as
> /mnt/0
>
> lilo -C /mnt/0/etc/lilo.conf -m /mnt/0/boot/map -r /mnt/0 -i /mnt/0/boot/boot.b
>
> The lilo man page seems to indicate that that is the correct format of the
> command, however when I run it (or variations), I get the error message
>
> /mnt/0/etc/lilo.conf: No such file or directory
>
> Adding a -t -v to it, only gives the lilo version (21).
>
> What is happening here ? It is important to be able to boot NT for the
> moment. How do I fix this, or restore the MBR ?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> David Drury
>
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In my experience, if you are running NT and linux on the same box,
either on the same drive or separate drives, without a doubt,
get you self a copy of Boot Magic.
You will save heaps of time stuffing around.
I got a copy of it from a Caldera 2.3 distribution
and the best thing about it is that it works...
There is also another boot loader that I got of the net called "Docs Boot" which
I have tried and it works well (unfortunately he wanted money for it) -but it is a
30 day trial.
Hope this is of some help...
Cheers!
--
Andrew Williss - VK5LA
Berri, South Australia
Email: bigwill@riverland.net.au
Netspace: http://www.riverland.net.au/~bigwill
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<br>David Drury wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Greetings,
<p>I have done a new RH6.1 install onto the second hard drive of a PC also
<br>running WindozeNT on HD 1. Having carefully read several HOWTOs, it
seems
<br>that lilo can boot WinNT on HDD 1 whilst residing on HDD 2.
<p>The install of RH froze shortly prior to the completion of the install
<br>(the performing of the post install procedures, before
<br>creating the rescue disk). Rebooting, boots to lilo, then to linux,
but I
<br>get a Kernel panic, unable to mount the root FS.
<p>Since this install is just for mucking around with, the kernel panic
is
<br>noat a problem at the moment now, but Lilo is. I tried using the NT
<br>install disk to restore the MBR (NT is on an NTFS partition taking
the
<br>entire first HDD), but it didn't, so I get out with the handy LinuxCare
<br>boot CD ROM, and after remounting the HDD in RW mode, edit /etc/lilo.conf
<br>to add in an entery for Win NT on the primary HDD.
<p>I then go to run lilo to intialise the canges using the following
<br>command. HDb1 is my linux partiton, and mounted on the linuxcare disk
as
<br>/mnt/0
<p>lilo -C /mnt/0/etc/lilo.conf -m /mnt/0/boot/map -r /mnt/0 -i /mnt/0/boot/boot.b
<p>The lilo man page seems to indicate that that is the correct format
of the
<br>command, however when I run it (or variations), I get the error message
<p>/mnt/0/etc/lilo.conf: No such file or directory
<p>Adding a -t -v to it, only gives the lilo version (21).
<p>What is happening here ? It is important to be able to boot NT for the
<br>moment. How do I fix this, or restore the MBR ?
<p>Thanks
<p>--
<br>David Drury
<p> _______________________________________
<br> \ iddrury@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au \
<br> \ idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au
\
__________ |
<br> \ A "Civil" Engineer now resigned
\ / \___-=O`/|O`/___|
<br> \ from the Human Race.
\_______\ / | /
)
<br> / Apply to the above address for
/ `/-==__ _/__|/__=--|
<br> / Resignation Forms.
/ *
\ | |
<br> / "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum."
/
(o)
<br> /______________________________________/
<p>--
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subject</blockquote>
In my experience, if you are running NT and linux on the same box,
<br>either on the same drive or separate drives, without a doubt,
<br>get you self a copy of Boot Magic.
<br>You will save heaps of time stuffing around.
<br>I got a copy of it from a Caldera 2.3 distribution
<br>and the best thing about it is that it works...
<br>There is also another boot loader that I got of the net called "Docs
Boot" which
<br>I have tried and it works well (unfortunately he wanted money for it)
-but it is a 30 day trial.
<br>Hope this is of some help...
<p>Cheers!
<br>
<pre>--
Andrew Williss - VK5LA
Berri, South Australia
Email: bigwill@riverland.net.au
Netspace: <a href="http://www.riverland.net.au/~bigwill">http://www.riverland.net.au/~bigwill<;/a></pre>
<p> </html>
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