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Old 08-30-2004, 12:08 AM   #1
MikeHiro
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bootloader problem


I keep getting the dreaded "L 99 99 99 and so on" error after the Verifying DMI Pool Data after my PC boots up. I've installed Mandrake before and this never happened with that, but I decided to switch to red hat fedora and now this keeps happenning. I'm using the Fedora Core2 DVD edition to install. The hard drive I'm installing to is set to slave, I'd rather put the bootloader on a floppy disk, but it doesn't give me a chance to. I've tried increasing the size of the boot partition and also changing jumpers around on the hard drive. btw the hard drive is only 20gb. I'm running out of ideas here! Help, I really wanna run linux on my system!

btw I haven't tried installing it on my master hard drive cuz thats the one with windows on it, so I'm afraid it might mess it up.

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Old 08-30-2004, 12:48 AM   #2
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I think you have to put the bootloader on the MBR of the master drive unless you are setting your BIOS to boot the second hard drive. It should not affect your windoze though. The MBR is the first sector of the hard drive and is not used by windoze. It is just blank. If you ever need to put it back like it was you can boot the XP CD and type in fixmbr. That will take the bootloader back off and back to the way it was.

One thing about Linux, you can go backwards. I'm not to good on Redhat, never even seen it before, but the bootloader is the same regardless of what you use. I have read where when, on occasion, you first put on a bootloader windoze will not boot. It IS still there, just not a option till you add it. If you run into that just add this to the appropriate bootloader file, /boot/grub/grub.conf or /etc/lilo.conf ??? file.

Code:
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader  +1
That should add the option to boot windoze.

I hope this may help a bit or give this a BUMP so a Redhat expert will pop in.

Later

 
Old 08-30-2004, 12:54 PM   #3
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hi

I advice u to make that slave hdd as primary master, i too have faced such problem ,when i made my drive slave once and then if it does not work
reinstall lilo after going to the rescue mode from ur Distro's 1st cd

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Old 08-30-2004, 03:38 PM   #4
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Hey thanks it worked! I unplugged my windows drive and set the linux one to master, and I re-installed and it boots fine now! I switched it back to slave and it boots fine from there too.
 
Old 08-31-2004, 01:02 AM   #5
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Originally posted by MikeHiro
Hey thanks it worked! I unplugged my windows drive and set the linux one to master, and I re-installed and it boots fine now! I switched it back to slave and it boots fine from there too.
hi

did u re-install the lilo boot loader or ur linux installation??

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