rh 7.2 dual booting
I have a weird problem.
If your dual booting with XP and rh 7.2, what would cause you to see this on your screen instead of lilo?
L
Yep, just L
Well I wanted to install linux at home, so i could do some work, then apply it to servers, etc..
I have xp on my computer, just xp.
So i got rh 7.2 cds, booted from cd 1, installed it
During the install, i choose it to install to MBR instead of first sector to partition?
I"m trying to remember what it said in the install, sorry guys
So anyway
I choose Deafult boot image: -- as in i check boxed it.
DOS
/dev/hda1
^^ that's my xp
I think that's about it.
I installed linux the first time, but i DIDNT check default boot image, or anything.... so after i was done, i saw L instead of
lilo:
or
boot:
whatever itis
so then
i re installed
and this time i checked default boot image and made sure it was /dev/hda (my xp)
and still
after the re install
L
is what i see
its driving me nuts
ALL i want to do is install rh 7.2 on my home box...... What am i doing wrong?
note:
i don't have a floppy drive, so i never make boot disks
i don't have my xp cd.
my cdrom is SLOW and works half the time..So i hate installing, becaues it takes forever for the rpms to copy. I'd rather post here first.
How did i get back into xp you ask?
I just booted off my win98 cd, went to dos, and ran:
fdisk /mbr
it worked, that's how i am here.
Any ideas?
OH, i forgot to mention:
i have two hard drives in this computer.
1. 15gig hd, full 15gig fat32 partition with xp on it. installed to c:\
2. a 10 gig ide hd, BLANK, ZERO partitions created on it. completely blank. empty.... there were NO partitions before installing rh 7.2. i created the partitions in the setup for redhat
/dev/hda is my 15gig fat32
/dev/hdc is the 10 gig hard drive
made a swap /boot and /
one of the things i did was i booted into "redhat linux rescue mode" or whatever. booted off the cd, typed linux rescue, then it dropped me a shell.
from there, i mounted my /dev/hdc the hd linux is on)
/dev/hda is my xp, and hdc is my linux drive. Anyway
i mounted /dev/hdc2 to /mnt/hdc -- then i went into /mnt/hdc/etc/ and lokoed at lilo.conf
and it had "lba32" in the conf, somewehre near the top, 3rd line or something
I never did understand, because /dev/hda is my 15 gig.
