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So I want to add 2000 Server to this computer. I temporarily removed the Linux HDD and installed W2k on a brand new disk. After that, I cabled both drives together, with the w2k being the primary master and the linux being the primary slave.
I booted into linux using a boot floppy and I updated the /etc/fstab and the /etc/lilo.conf files. They still had entries for hda, but now linux lives on hdb. So after that, I extracted the linux boot sector:
hdb1 is my new /boot partition, where the linux boot sector lives. Ok so I take that file "linux.bin" and copy it to a floppy. Now I boot into w2k and copy the file to the root of the C:\ drive. I edit boot.ini and add the following line:
c:\linux.bin="Red Hat Linux 7.1"
I restart the computer, and at the boot menu, I select Red Hat Linux 7.1. All I see is a white blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. Linux does not load.
Does anyone know what I need to do to get this to work? Thanks.
When you say hdb1 is my new /boot partition, where the linux boot sector lives, do you mean that you installed lilo on the /boot partition? Could post a copy of your fstab and lilo.conf files?
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