On 26 Jul 2001 10:02:12 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> A tech here has 2 hdd's on his system, hda and hdb. hda is full with windows
> 2k, hdb is RH 7.1. All boot partitions are on hdb for linux. No LILO
> installed on hda. When installed with RH 7.1 SGI XFS installer 1.0.1, the
> system will not boot at all from hdb, not even with a floppy. If using no
> XFS, it will boot no problem. What is causing this behaviour? Is it
> something to do with the way XFS needs to find it's boot device? Thanks for
> the help.
After having lots of problem with multiboot systems, i realised it's
always better to keep a small (50 MB) /boot partition on /dev/hda no
matter how you distribute everything else (for example: /dev/hda1 is
/boot, put vindoze on /dev/hda2 and Linux on /dev/hdb*), make /boot
partition Ext2, mark it with the "bootable" flag in fdisk, and install
lilo on /boot's superblock.
This way, i was able to have many OSs on my computer, all of them booted
from lilo.
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Florin Andrei
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