DSL installed to HDD but I can't access it

Forum: HD Install
Topic: DSL installed to HDD but I can't access it
started by: EFwis

Posted by EFwis on Mar. 26 2006,22:54

ok, here is my situation,

I did the hdd install to a seperate HDD on my machine, I dual boot with Windows XP. I used to use Ubuntu, but because of disk space requirements, I need a lighter version of Linux.

When I had Ubuntu installed, Grub would automatically put the necessary entries for me to access either Windows or Ubuntu, but with DSL it doesn't do this, so here I am with a Linux drive and no access to it.

How can I get Grub to work on this setup? I use NTFS on Windows, and I don't swap between the two OS's so I have no need for a fat32 swap space.

if I set my linux drive to boot first then I get that lovely error 17 from Grub.

Any ideas???

Posted by EFwis on Mar. 26 2006,23:47

I got it fixed, I used Lilo instead then swapped my bios around so that my dsl drive was the first drive to load from.