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Master of Reality:
i didnt get it to work, but theres no need for you to do that for me voidmain. i shall get bootmagic this weekend and use it to boot into linux.
thanks anyway

[ March 26, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]

voidmain:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by Druaga:
[QB]i didnt get it to work, but theres no need for you to do that for me voidmain. i shall get bootmagic this weekend and use it to boot into linux.
thanks anyway

Well, it's entirely possible that boot magic will not be able to boot it either as you installed LILO to /dev/hda (hard drive master boot record).  In order for boot magic to boot your Linux patition you would have had to install LILO to /dev/hda2 (or wherever your "/boot" partition resides "/" partition if you do not use a "/boot" partition).

Your best bet may just be to reinstall Linux but when you get to the LILO installation part, do not install to the default of "/dev/hda", install to "/dev/hda2" (or whatever partition your /boot is on as mentioned above. It should give you that option (Mandrake users want to comment?). Then boot magic should be able to boot it.  I'm sure I could get it to work but I don't want to bring one of my machines down to that state to mess with it (especially don't want to install EZ-BIOS, that's nasty stuff). Of course since you *are* using EZ-BIOS, all bets are off. Sorry I don't have the answer you need, maybe someone else here has recently set up a dual boot machine with EZ-BIOS that can help.

WAIT!! I just remembered what I used to do when I ran EZ-BIOS on a dual boot machine.  I didn't use LILO at all.  I used "LOADLIN.EXE".  I actually booted Linux from the Windows boot menu.  Search the net for LOADLIN.EXE. This file should reside on your C: Windows partition along with a copy of your kernel. I created a batch file that I could add to the DOS/Windows bootup screen that would give me the option of booting Linux instead. This allows EZ-BIOS to load before the kernel.  It's pretty easy to use and it used to work very nicely.  Now the last time I used it was pre-module kernel days and there was no "initrd" (initial RAM disk that usually contains kernel modules for devices).  I would at least look into it (or a more recent equivelant).
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voidmain:
And read over this DOC:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html

It may help you understand the situation and a roadmap to get you where you want to be.

Master of Reality:
i am getting new computer parts (m-board, processor, box) so i may wait till then, format every thing on both my computers (1 is a crappy server already)

afteri get my new computer parts i will have tree computers. i am gonna have a server for my cable internet, running red hat. Another computer which is undecide about what will be on it. And my main computer which will be mandrake and perhaps win98.

so i am gonna totally restart from scratch after i get my new shit.

voidmain:
And when you do, wipe that EZ-BIOS off your drive (which can be a little tricky).

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