[ Date Index ][
Thread Index ]
[ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 10:52 am, Wayne Lockey wrote: > Another quick questtion > > I have been trying to dual boot my linux machine with xp , and have found > that i cant get into the linux partion only through a boot disk , > winXP is on /dev/hda1 |Linux is on /dev/hda2 > i have changed lilo to default to linux , but hey this does not work , when > running lilo -v get a message > cylinders linear too large try lba32 instead , > so I have added lba32 to lilo.conf file , but still no luck > it wont work , > Does anyone know how to do this or if I have to do this change the MBR on > an XP machine , I have tried this but cannot get this to default to Linux , > not quite sure about all the cylinder lengths or what i am supposed to put > into the fields!!! > (Despite your subject line, pre-installed XP may well use WINNT or NTFS instead of FAT32). If XP is using the WINNT file system, (which, incidentally, WindowsME Setup thinks is OS/2 and insists on obliterating), check the links at www.google.co.uk/linux for info on dual-booting with WindowsNT - there are many more threads on this than on XP. Try: terms: dual boot NT linux lilo http://www.benchtest.com/dual_nt_linux.html - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JELYiAEJSii8s+MRAmUDAKDCzXpqDuJvYG6kURTmWfIQbsR8iwCgswOr P6cB52ix+KToTjvyGQUwadc= =7+05 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.