Psyche & Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 Boot Problems
 

Argh.. I need some help, I've searched around I can't seem to find a solution to my problem.. I thought that I'd install Linux v8 onto my win2k machine that has a Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 expansion card.. The root partition is located on a drive that's not on the motherboard's controller, it's controlled by the expansion card.. The install went alright but once I tried to boot the system all I got was the message:

GRUB

...and nothing else. After that I just reloaded my mbr with fdisk and now I have no idea what to do, although win2k boots up without a hitch.. How do I go about booting linux from where it's installed and how do I go about setting up a bootloader that will allow me to choose between win2k and linux?? Btw, I didn't make a linux boot disk, even though I was urged to do so.. Oops..

As you can tell I'm pretty new to this.. Any ideas..

Thanks,

Luke.

What's Linux v8? You mean Redhat 8?

And i'm not sure about the drive, how are your partitions set out. i.e. how many windows/linux, how big is your harddrive etc.

And LILO would probably be better for you...

Oh and you don't really need a bootdisk if you can boot from ua c.d rom drive...

#Garry :D

p.s. Welcome to LQ and the whacked world of Linux :p