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Topic: Dual boot, Two Partitions....

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lepingouin Offline

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Posted: Mar. 29 2004,20:54

And it worked!

anyway i learned how dd function and that is something good i think!

Dsl is now installed, but i will have to do some work on it before i can use it really...
but i havent the time till next saturday

i think ill post some other topics ;-)

thanks for your help!!!

best wishes
lepingouin

pvdvyve

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Posted: April 05 2004,07:26

<I had to install it freshlz because i tried to install lindows - it worked but lilo killed my mbr!!!!!!
as i had no backup i had to reinstall win2k.
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You are learning a lot.
You didn't need to reinstall your win.
Could use the command:
install-mbr from within linux and or make win bootable in lilo (therefor change the file liloconf)
or used the command lilo -u
or boot your win from cd and do a simular command, to put back the win loader.
Remember that lilo is just a linux loader( as linload), and that these loaders are a lot user friendlier
than the loaders win uses!
On one of my pc's (an old p75-48ram) I use a third loader:
xosl(freeware)and installed from within ms-dos:
you can make more than a dual boot with this one:
(even more easy as with lilo)
at the moment I boot ms win 95 or DSL from it.
(so I boot this loader and than I make the choice to boot the win loader(first HD) or the lilo(second HD)
But by now I assume that you know a lot more about how to make DSL running(from CD, from an image on your win drive or as a real HD installed system.

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... just another Linux user ...

lepingouinferoce
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Posted: April 07 2004,22:14

hm i dont think so... - the mbr was wasted.

only the first l of lilo came and then 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111111111111111111111

so there was nothing that might have been rescued :-(\

i tried to repair the install but win2k only checks the disk, not the mbr

best wishes
lepingouinferoce

Tomo

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Posted: April 08 2004,14:04

Ive tried the dd command and it wont boot my DSL.

This is how i have my HD set up.

hda1 = win2k 10Gb
hda2 = Slackware 7.5Gb (not installed yet)
hda3 = DSL 99 5Mb (installed but cant boot it)
hda4 = swap 500Mb

I did user the dd command when i had just win2k and slackware installed....... now wiped it off and re partitioned the drive so i can have DSL too.

I would prefer to use the windows boot screen but i cant get the dd to work and load this way.

thanks

-Tomo

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Posted: April 10 2004,21:03

Anytime you have a problem with lilo, just get a MS-DOS boot floppy, and
when booted up:
A:\ fdisk mbr
That ought to do it!
If you have Windows installed, then it will return (win98).
Other partitions, you might have Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. there, so use
the linux boot floppy you made during installation to get that OS booted.
One can use Loadlin to boot into a Linux partition anywhere on the system,
/dev/hda or /dev/hdb, even /dev/hdc hard drives. If you install a nice Redhat 9,
for instance, it can set up a lilo for you on your /dev/hda, even if you have Redhat 9 on /dev/hdc as I do.
Do lots of searching on Google about loadlin, it really works, and I like it over lilo any day. I had one system with 16 partitions on it, all OS's booted with loadlin. That machine was a single-processor, I never got loadlin to work on dual processor machines. Neat trick with loadlin is to put an Icon on the Windows 98 desktop "Debian Linux", or "Mandrake Linux" and boot them by double clicking on the Icon.
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