[ltp] Re: [Thinkpad] TP Linux

[James McKenzie]

Adam:

Once you boot up the disk, look to see if there are any filesystems 
mounted in the /mnt directory.  If there are, look at these.  If not, 
try the following:

mkdir /mnt/disk1
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk1

This will mount the first partition of the drive.  The native boot 
kernel will NOT mount NTFS (WindowsXP partition).  You should see a 
directory structure with a /etc, /usr, /root.  You want to switch to the 
/etc partition and look for a file named lilo.conf.  You should be able 
to edit the file with the vi file editor and change the default 
partition to the windows partition.  My parition name is Windows98 (as I 
run that version of Windows.)  I could change the default line to 
default = Windows98.  This would cause the Windows partition boot as the 
default everytime.  You also have to run /sbin/lilo to change the Master 
Boot Record to read your changes.

Hopefully this will force WindowsXP to boot without a problem.

James McKenzie


Adam wrote:

>Friday, January 2, 2004, 4:40:51 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
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>>Hopefully, he made a boot disk.  With this disk, you can edit the 
>>/etc/lilo.conf file to make the Windows partition the default and then 
>>boot to that disk.  You can find a boot disk image at bootdisk.com for
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>I made an unsuccessful bid at a Linux install this Christmas time. Ron
>also had some unsuccess.
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>I don't know about Ron, but I never got any experience editing files.
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>I did boot with the boot disk. It seems to boot Linux. It doesn't seem
>to list files to edit.
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