Re: dual-boot 64-32bit

2005-01-06 Thread Norval Watson
I decided to start again with a fresh install, erasing the whole disk. I started fresh with demudi and after trying various options in the BIOS and boot flags I tried boot: linux noapic nolapic This worked and I was able to reboot. Installed all packages. I have a problem starting x, but I don't th

Re: dual-boot 64-32bit

2005-01-05 Thread Norval Watson
Hi Guiseppe, Thanks for the reply. I gave confusing info in my first post. I resized the 64bit /home to free up about 25GB of space. I used parted> mkpartfs to make a new ext2 partition but that was a mistake. I deleted that partition in the demudi install dialog. Debian-installer then created the

Re: dual-boot 64-32bit

2005-01-05 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi Norval, I think you are trying something impossible since demudi is a 32bit environment an amd64 is 64bit so you have different executable formats. What you should have is: two different partitions for / that are only listed in /etc/fstab for the relevant system, i.e., the 64bit system should on

dual-boot 64-32bit

2005-01-05 Thread Norval Watson
Hi, I am trying to setup a 64-bit debian-amd64 and 32-bit AGNULA/Demudi dual boot. I installed debian-amd64 first. Then I used parted to make some free space on the /home partition. Then I installed demudi_1.2.1-rc1-i386.iso into the free space. On reboot demudi recognizes SATA disk but hangs at ch