Dual boot question

[Arnie Owen]

If I install a small (130Mb) 2nd Hard drive to my system, can I then get a
Linux installation to use this to boot from but put all the rest of the
installation onto partitions on my 20GB drive ???

Have tried to install 2 different 'flavours' of Linux so far and just get
endless 0's and 1's filling screen on reboot, apparently something to do
with an inflatable bed (LILO)

(Tried TurboLinux 6.0 and also Corel Linux)

Think u can see what I mean :)

Thanks in advance.

Arnie

[Bit Twister]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:08:35 -0600, Arnie Owen wrote:

> If I install a small (130Mb) 2nd Hard drive to my system, can I then get
> a Linux installation to use this to boot from but put all the rest of
> the installation onto partitions on my 20GB drive ???

Your question is kinda vague with me knowing what I know.
lilo boots from the mbr or diskette.
If you want a lilo mbr boot from 2nd hard drive, your bios would have
a boot order selection for D.

Is the 20g drive scsi? If pc is only a year or so old, lilo should
be able to get to linus on the 20g.

[Bit Twister]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:44:38 -0600, Arnie Owen wrote:

> System is Athlon 800, Seagate 20GB HDD IDE (ATA66), 512Mb RAM, 32Mb
> Geforce2 MX Video. Not a year old yet.
>
> Have already tried to install using LILO thing, about 10 attempts using
> Turbo Linux 6.0 (boxed version).
> I have also now installed Partition manager and have tried to install by
> moving the Linux boot partition right to start of HDD (to get around
> 1024 cyl or 2Gb problem), still no joy. Would like to avoid using BIOS
> to select boot setting if poss, already have BootMagic and that doesn't
> help (even though it saw the Linux partition and saw that it was
> bootable).

My /etc/lilo.conf has
lba32
which lets me boot past the 1024 cyl point.

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[RogerB]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:30:10 GMT, Bit Twister
<reply_this_article@this_news.group> wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:44:38 -0600, Arnie Owen wrote:
>
>> System is Athlon 800, Seagate 20GB HDD IDE (ATA66), 512Mb RAM, 32Mb
>> Geforce2 MX Video. Not a year old yet.
>>
>> Have already tried to install using LILO thing, about 10 attempts using
>> Turbo Linux 6.0 (boxed version).
>> I have also now installed Partition manager and have tried to install by
>> moving the Linux boot partition right to start of HDD (to get around
>> 1024 cyl or 2Gb problem), still no joy. Would like to avoid using BIOS
>> to select boot setting if poss, already have BootMagic and that doesn't
>> help (even though it saw the Linux partition and saw that it was
>> bootable).
>
>My /etc/lilo.conf has
>lba32
>which lets me boot past the 1024 cyl point.
>

When you format your second drive try
dividing into /boot (20MEG) and the rest for swap.
Then put the root partition / on the large drive.
Lilo would have boot=dev/hdb or whatever the
drive is (second controler would be hdc or hdd)
and root=/dev/hdax where x is your partition number.

[Dennis K Grow]

Annie,

Post your lilo.conf.

Dennis

[RogerB]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:33:23 -0800, Dennis K Grow <dkg...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Annie,
>
>Post your lilo.conf.
>
>Dennis

The dual boot machine uses the nt loader with the mbr
made into a file but it goes like this (the whole disk is only 800M)

# restricted.
#password=bootpwd
#restricted
boot=/dev/fd0
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
vga = normal # force sane state
read-only
prompt
timeout=50
# End LILO global Section
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda2
label = linux
You will notice the boot is floppy but the mbr was copied from the floppy
and placed in c:\ bootsect.lnx. You will also notice the lilo doesn't start nt.
The line image = /boot/vmlinuz is the important one here. When you run lilo
it needs to know /boot and root / then it can place that in the mbr.
You would have the section that points to windows.

[Marijan Peh]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:44:38 -0000, Arnie Owen wrote:
> System is Athlon 800, Seagate 20GB HDD IDE (ATA66), 512Mb RAM, 32Mb Geforce2
> MX Video. Not a year old yet.
>
> Have already tried to install using LILO thing, about 10 attempts using
> Turbo Linux 6.0 (boxed version).
> I have also now installed Partition manager and have tried to install by
> moving the Linux boot partition right to start of HDD (to get around 1024
> cyl or 2Gb problem), still no joy. Would like to avoid using BIOS to select
> boot setting if poss, already have BootMagic and that doesn't help (even
> though it saw the Linux partition and saw that it was bootable).

Older distributions of linux(with 2.2.x kernel) don't have support for
disk with ATA66 interface, maybe that is problem ... try newer
distribution with 2.4.x kernel(rh7.2,mdk8.1)

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