[ltp] a newbie struggling with LILO

[Tod Harter]

I'm guessing you did your XP recovery AFTER you installed Linux, which is=
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probably how LILO got clobbered. There are a couple ways to fix your prob=
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1 would be to use the RH CD to boot into rescue mode. I think from there =
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can repair the MBR. That should give you dual boot. The other possibility=
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it IS possible to build a boot floppy on another machine as long as=20
/etc/fstab has the same layout. Naturally this requires that you have ano=
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linux box... If you do, do a man on mkbootdisk, there are options that wi=
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let you select alternative fstabs. If you know what should be in it but y=
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don't have an identical one you can cook one up pretty easy, the importan=
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thing is that the device names, mount points, and file system types are t=
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same.

On Monday 06 January 2003 05:46 pm, Katsumi Matsumoto wrote:
> I'm having some problem booting, and I am hoping to get an advise from
> someone.
>
> I just recently installed RH8 on my T30.  Having followed the many advi=
ses
> posted on the web, I was able to partition the 60GB hard drive, while
> keeping intact the hidden XP recovery partition.  Since I want a dual
> boot, I "recovered" XP in the first partition (also kept the recovery
> partition and made recovery repair disk) and installed successfully RH8=
 on
> the remaining partitions (/boot, /swap, and /).
>
> Since T30 can have either a CD drive or a floppy drive in the single ul=
tra
> bay but not both, I could not make a boot-floppy for booting linux (I w=
as
> going to do this after booting into linux), because I installed linux f=
rom
> CDs.  During the installation, I chose LILO to boot off of and designat=
ed
> MBR to install LILO.  I chose DOS as the default OS over linux during t=
he
> boot loader configuration.
>
> Now after the seemingly successfully installation, I turn on my T30, an=
d
> Windows XP comes up.  Contrary to my expectation, I do not get some kin=
d
> of a LILO screen that would allow me to choose either XP or linux.  Why=
?
>
> Since I could not make a boot-floppy for booting linux, basically I'm
> stuck here...
>
> I'd appreciate any helpful hint to activate LILO.  Should I have used G=
RUB
> instead?
>
> Thanks,
> -Katsumi

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Tod G. Harter
Giant Electronic Brain