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Hi, I am trying to dual book winxp and mandrake 9. I have a 20gig for my primary winxp ntfs drive and a 60gig that I would like to use for a 50gig ntfs storage partition and use the remaining 10 gigs for a linux install. I have attempted this install a few times and am not able to get LILO working correctly. If i install it on the MBR I get a ton of 4's and the machine stops. If I install it on thet linux partition, I am unable to boot it (using system commander) it just locks, no errors. any ideas?
If you want, send me a copy of your
/etc/lilo.conf and I can take a look at it!!!
It should work if you have everything setting
right in it.Lawrence
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I don't think Linux supports booting from a NTFS drive. Try an installation where the boot drive is FAT32 (FAT would definitely work). At least I've read that NTFS support is iffy for "out of the box" Linux installs.
Another problem may be a 1024 cylinder boot limit? Perhaps try having the 10GB partition before the 50GB NTFS partition?
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Sorry Lawrence, looks like we posted about the same time. This is not a flame, I'm just not as confident with the Linux boot process as I am with NT type boot processes.
Doesn't it look more like LILO can't find the lilo.conf (from AcousticTX's post)? Then how would the /etc/lilo.conf come into play?
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I use lilo to boot up my Windows 2000 Server
and RedHat Linux 8.0 so I don't think there
is a problem with using lilo to boot NTFS!!!
RedHat can't read NTFS out of a box but there
is nothing wrong of installing lilo in MBR!
But if you don't believe me, then there is
nothing else I can do about it then... Just
have him/her (AcousticTX) find another way
to boot the system then.Lawrence
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Hi - I would for sure put the 10G linux partition on hdb first, not last.
Lilo probably does not have a problem with it at the end, but your BIOS might.
Guy
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Thank's Lawrence, there is no question of not believing you. Like I said, I'm not as comfortable with Linux booting as I am with Windows booting. I didn't know if the LILO mini file system driver would read from a NTFS formated drive. As you pointed out, LILO goes in the non formated MBR and not in the formated boot sector - so the format doesn't matter. Another case of me mixing up MBR with boot sector.
I read though Werner Almesberger's "Generic boot loader for Linux". This link (and the next page) have a nice list of boot error explainations.
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/Dokumentation/lilo/user/d4hnode77.html#SECTION00062100000000000000Regarding booting your W2k Server, once LILO passes boot control to NTLDR, there is no LILO involvement anymore. Like what happens when NTLDR passes control to a bootsect.dos (or linux.dos) loader.
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