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Just installed RH 8.0 finaly in my laptop... but because when i got the laptop i had some problems with RH install procedure i didn't install it ... and proceded with the instalation of WindowsXP leaving a partition for future Linux instalation...
Now that i'v instaled RH i can't make LILO work!
Remember this is a hard drive from a laptop so it's the same disk!
Can boot partition not be the first partition? because if it realy must be in the first partition i have to format windowsXp and i realy don't whant to do that...
How can i make it work? any sugestions?
Ok new problem !! i can't even get into the the linux by boot disk!
when he is running the kernel in the disk it gives this msg:
...
isapnp: scanning for pnp cards...
CPU 0: Machine check Exception:000000...07
Bank 3: b4000..0083b at 0...01fc0003bb
kernel panic: unable to continue
Technical Specs:
Compaq Presario 920EA
AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2000+
256 Mb RAM
30 Gb HD
ATI Mobility Radeon U1/IGP320M
About the partition... when i'm in the Disk Druid he gives me this msg when i'm making /boot partition :
warning:boot partition /boot may not meet booting constraints for your architecture.
Is this a problem?
i'v installed lilo in /dev/hda2 First Sector of boot partition
is this correct for my system with windows partition in hda1?
What is in your MBR? Your post reads like you are using LILO as your boot loader, then you close with it being in the superblock of your first Linux partition. It is put there when another boot loader (such as NTLDR, the NT boot loader) is used. With Red Hat 8.0, this is an intentional change (Red Hat does not default to this and it takes some figuring out how to do it).
When you start your computer, does it just boot normally to XP? Is that what you are calling "can't make LILO work?"
Is this as simple as you had a functioning XP program and when you added Linux, you didn't overwrite the MBR, so now you need to tell the NTLDR to also load Linux?
First, you need to get Linux booting--you'll need a boot image from it. If the boot disk doesn't work, put the installation CD back in and boot from it. When it gets to the boot prompt, follow the instruction for a rescue boot.
When you get Linux up, log on as root, put a floppy in the drive, mount the floppy drive (right click on the desk top, select disks and click on floppy) and in a terminal window, copy a file with the boot image to the floppy with this command:
This looks like you installed LILO into the beginning of the Linux partition and not the MBR. This makes the questions I asked even more important. Please reread them and post the answers.
When you start your computer, does it just boot normally to XP?
Yes it just goes to XP...
I can't creat that disk because in my rescue mode it gives me a messege that /dev/fd0/bootsect.lnx is not a directory
... remember that i have some issues about my laptop working with linux don't know how far can this be related...
I don't know how far they are related, but just looking at this, you have XP booting through NTLDR and LILO set to boot Linux from your Linux partition.
The dd command couldn't find the directory because the floppy wasn't mounted. Rescue mode is a little restricted, so let's get a boot disk made and boot from it.
In Rescue mode, you should be at a Shell prompt. First find out what version kernel you are using. This is done with the uname command:
uname -r
It will print out something like this:
2.4.18-14
Actually, that is what my Red Hat CDs shipped with (but there is not guarantee that you have that kernel).
With that version number, put a floppy in and type this command:
/sbin/mkbootdisk 2.4.18-14
Replace the kernel version with yours.
With the boot disk, boot your computer and follow my original instructions.
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