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noob bootup question
hnugz:
well thanks for the good info. it looks like i screwed up. i know for a fact i chose lilo as the boot loader but maybe i didn't read something carefully enough so that it would install. Here is what I did: I have one 40 gig partitioned into 2 20 gig partitions, the first 20 with win2k already installed as ntfs, and then the second 20 I used partition magic to just delete the partition. Then I did the whole red hat install procedure. The reason I did it this way is because I have never really looked at how to partition a drive for linux since it seemed more complicated than windows so I let it just parition what it needs automatically. Maybe this is my downfall. I will try the hour and a half install again and if something else comes up ill be sure to post again. Thanks.
Faust:
Maybe its the NTFS, and Lilo / Grub cant read NTFS?
Hmm. If it is loading Windows, and you did install Linux second it seems that you may have just not installed Lilo / Grub. happens to the best of us, I did that once too. :(
The auto partition will be fine btw, it will allocate just what it needs.
Stryker:
you should be able to go into rescue mode from the installation cd and:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/hda
of course you'd then have to create a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, but that's not too hard if you read some documentation.
Copperhead:
You can use a program called Bootpart that will load any operating system that you want right to the NT boot menu. It is very easy to use, and the documentation is written right on the page. I believe that it is free, as well.
[ August 11, 2003: Message edited by: Copperhead ]
hm_murdock:
Bootpart works well, I used it to configure XP's boot menu so that a friend could access windows me after he installed XP
why he'd wanna use windows me after installing xp (yeah, it's hella better) is beyond me. I tried to talk him into red hat 8 but he wouldn't have it
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