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Topic: noob wants dual boot dsl/win95, planning to add 20g hd to antique comp

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^thehatsrule^ Offline

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Posted: Jan. 20 2007,18:41

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now... (and i hope to fix this easily as soon as that room warms up a little more)... when the computer boots, it still goes only to win95 (seems fully functional still), with no sign of grub or dsl. when i boot on livecd, dsl does show a statement that it is using my swap partition on hdb1.

DSL install scripts by default install the bootloader to the mbr of the device which holds the partition in which you installed DSL to. There are several ways you can go around doing this, but the easiest would be to set your bios to boot off the 2nd drive first. There were a couple similar threads to this if you want more solutions.

About win95 seeing the new disk's partitions - windows by default cannot see linux partitions, and thus, will not show up (unless you install some 3rd party software, or use FAT partitions)

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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,01:03

partial progress...

i have changed the boot order. now i get the "grub _" black screen lock-up. i can still boot onto the livecd (as am now).

i have tried to follow a thread posted to another post referring to the grub lockup, telling how to edit device.map, but have not been able to get any editing done. i have been trying beaver, but i think device.map is still read-only.

also - i have tried (earlier) to use cfdisk to set hdb as bootable. on that front, i have tried setting each of the partitions as "boot", but saw no difference, and was not able (as far as i could tell) to go to a deeper level below the partitions.

thanks for putting up with me...
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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,02:25

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i have changed the boot order. now i get the "grub _" black screen lock-up. i can still boot onto the livecd (as am now).

Some computers may have problems with grub.. you could try lilo if all fails.

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i have tried to follow a thread posted to another post referring to the grub lockup, telling how to edit device.map, but have not been able to get any editing done. i have been trying beaver, but i think device.map is still read-only.

Edit /cdrom/boot/grub/device.map ?

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also - i have tried (earlier) to use cfdisk to set hdb as bootable. on that front, i have tried setting each of the partitions as "boot", but saw no difference, and was not able (as far as i could tell) to go to a deeper level below the partitions.

That's for the partition, not the device. I'm guessing you mean the bootflag, or 'active' partition of that device.

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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,02:46

as to the editing of device.map....

in the earlier thread i had seen, the person was deleting all lines except for the one referring to hda. in my case should i leave the lines for both hda and hdb, or only the hdb, as that is my linux drive?

and then... do i still need to re-install grub (or should i try lilo)? i don't yet know which would be any better.

thanks,
gary