From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F872EFF0 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:44:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id eACBiZw30958 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:44:35 -0500 Received: from rupin.localnet (IDENT:root@ras222-164.srv.net [12.7.222.164]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id eACBiXD30950 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:44:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (lcr@localhost) by rupin.localnet (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA18002 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 04:44:30 -0700 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 04:44:28 -0700 (MST) From: "L. C. Robinson" To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Urgent help needed! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion Windoze may be finicky, but not that picky. Mine has been on partition 4 since the win 3.1 days, and now resides on my second (slave) hard disk (same disk, just cabled differently), on /dev/hdb4, to be precise, and DRDOS is on hda1: with lilo they both boot up thinking they are drive C. If you're willing to wade through the longish lilo manual, you can do almost anything you want (the ascii text version of the manual is found in /usr/doc/lilo-0.21/README, on my system (RedHat)). Most setups can be done through the /usr/doc/lilo-0.21/QuickInst script. Here's my setup: 87% df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb4 212M 112M 100M 53% /dos/win95 /dev/hda1 37M 14M 23M 38% /dos/c And the M$ part of my lilo.conf: other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = drdos alias = d other = /dev/hdb4 table = /dev/hdb label = win95 alias = 95 # Swap drives virtually: map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andor Demarteau wrote: > ohe error you made, windoz always needs to be on partition 1, > no exceptions at all! The dos-labeled lines is incorrect as > well, have a look in the lilo-manpage there's a clear exampe > near the bottom of it explaining exactly how to do this. I > have attached my lilo.conf (yes I'm a poor sod still having > windoz on hda1 I know). good luck! > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > > Hi all, I urgently need help to solve this problem regarding > > partitioning. I have written my own lilo.conf, which I have > > included at the end of this message, and then when I select > > windows from lilo get the error message: cannot find > > c:\windows\system\something.vxd, i cannot remember exactly. > > basically it is looking for the windows boot loader. i am > > using windows millennium incase this matters. my lilo.conf > > file is: -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html