Re: Dual Booting (Part II)

[Greg Nash <gregn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I run system commander, also are you installing lilo in the boot partion
or the master boot record?? I have my installed in the boot part. and have
no problem loading. I'm booting two versions of win 95b (one for the kids
one for games for me) win-nt 4.0 and win98 on one 4.2 gig hd and Red Hat
linux 5.1 on a 1.2 gig hd. Hope that gives you an idea.

Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands wrote:

> After securing a copy of System Commander, I was assured
> it would handle my dual-boot woes without trouble.
> Well, sorta.
>
> Here's a refresher:
>
> Running Win98 on my primary (6.4 gig) hard drive.
> Running Linux on my secondary (2.5 gig) hard drive.
> Seperate hard drives here, not one big one.
>
> Win98 has to be the master; no argument there.
> Linux needs to be the slave....but that's only half
> of it.
>
> No matter what boot manager I've tried, I keep getting
> the same error message: the bootable partition of Linux
> is considered "non FAT-32 and unformatted...do I want
> to format it?"
>
> 'course not!
>
> Someone told me all they had to do was edit /etc/lilo.conf
> and change the first line where it says
>
> boot = /dev/hda
>
> to now read
>
> boot = /dev/hdb1
>
> Then, run lilo and I should be all set.
>
> He said he didn't have to change /etc/fstab...just that
> boot line in the lilo.conf
>
> Before I attempt to do this....
>
> (1) Does it *sound* like it should work?  LILO will NOT be my boot
> loader...
> (2) If I change this, is it possible to un-change it?  I had a hell of
>     a time last weekend after I did a dumb thing on Linux, but I was
>     able to get back into single-user, and with the help of Bruce,
>     fix my mistake.
>
> Opinions, anyone?
>
> >>Matt<<
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