hi ya david
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, David Baron wrote:
> OK tried it. The results:
> Go the lilo menu OK. Boot to Linux partition OK. Boot to Windows -- Goes to
> the lilo menu again.
whacky :-) but that's windoze 4u
> So I -U'd. Now I get the bootmagic menu once more. Boot to linux -- get the
> lilo menu there, etc. Boot to windows ..... get the lilo menu again. No
> escape :-(
sounds like we need to wipe bootmagic too
-- once you are in linux ...
dd if=/boot/boot.0364 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 sync
assuming your linux is on /dev/hdb ( root=/dev/hdb1 )
-- or in DOS ... fdisk /mbr
c ya
alvin
> root=/dev/hdb1
good
> # Specifies the boot device
> # I made the one hda1 when I lilod to the windows partition
> boot=/dev/hdb1
BAD ...
boot=/dev/hda
--
-- you want to overwrite windoze bootloader with lilo
-- so you can use lilo to boot windoze(/dev/hda1) or
-- linux (/dev/hdb1)
--
> bitmap=/boot/sid.bmp
> bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
> bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
> bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
> install=bmp
take out all that junk ( 5 lines ) for now
> # things can get a little too big
> ramdisk=8129
remove that ... ( experiment with and witout it )
- make sure you have a linux boot disk that
you can boot off of into linux to experiment
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686-smp
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-686-smp
> label=2.6.8
> read-only
good ...
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=windows
good ..
> other=/dev/fd0
> label=floppy
remove this ( both lines )
c ya
alvin
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