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Topic: Dual boot, Two Partitions....

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gjhicks

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Posted: April 22 2004,12:50

Hi,

I want to be able to boot from my hard disk and so I did the following:

1) Made a 400mb Linux ext2 partition on my hard drive. Under RedHat 9, this partition appears as "/dev/hda5".

2) Booted with the DSL CD and used the standard HD Install procedure to copy DSL to the 400mb partition.

3) Made a boot floppy, using "dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0".

4) Copied the "vmlinuz" file from the boot floppy to a folder on my Windows drive. (I did also make use of miniroot.gz but a more experienced DSL user put me straight on that error)

5) In that folder, which already had "loadlin.exe", prepared a batch file with the following command:

loadlin vmlinuz /dev/hda5 ro

Now I get tantalisingly close to success!

At the end of the usual plethora of information about the boot process, I got the following messages:

hostname 2.08

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0

X10: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

On another suggestion of the more experienced DSL user, I tried editing Xsetup, to use Xvesa, rather than Xfbdev.

Still didn't work.

Can you spot in the above sequence where I am going wrong??

Regards,

Geoff.

A:>fdisk /mbr
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Posted: Aug. 03 2004,07:52

I have done this quite a few times, and I have to say that it has worked 98% of the time with no problems (now THAT'S a record for a MS product!) Used it on DOS, Win. 95-98-2000. But I could not get this command to work from a DOS startup disk when win. was loaded, but a win 95-98 bootup disk worked fine.

A:>fdisk /mbr

Shitman
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Posted: Aug. 07 2004,17:39

how can i know which hda etc my 2nd hdd ( secondary master ) is?

mahto

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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,16:22

Hello all,
I've been trying to do hdinstall with dsl 7.3 and am having no luck.
I've reduced partitions to: hda1 (xp/fat32); hda5 (Linux/type83);
hda6 (Linux swap).
When trying dsl-hdinstall from RAT, I enter hda5 and get:
"Sorry system has not detected a Linux partition."
I've deleted and repartioned from dsl with cfdisk, from DOS and with PM8 and still the same error.
The iso is fine and dsl runs from cd.
The hdd and system checks out fine with Seagate's "SeaTools"

Any help would be much appreciated,
mahto

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 15 2004,16:42

Try making your partitions using only primary partitions..
I use cfdisk..

Primary partition 1 = fat32
Primary partition 2 = linux type 83
Primary partition 3 = linux swap type 82

Reduce your HD to just the one fat32 partition / write to HD..
REBOOT your box..
Add the 2nd=ext2 and 3rd=swap primary partitions / write to HD..
REBOOT your box..
run "mke2fs /dev/hda2"
run "mkswap /dev/hda3"
check in cfdisk one more time, you should see no
(partitions are out of order) messages...

Now, try the HDInstall of DSL..

Once this works for you, then you can make the last primary your extended set,
so that you can continue to add partitions as you have room...

73
ke4nt

21 replies since Mar. 20 2004,23:46

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