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Problems booting Slackware 10 with Windows XP

Started by July 30, 2004 05:47 PM
1 comment, last by Ekim_Gram 20 years, 6 months ago
So, I decided to test out the new Slackware 10.0 I formatted my hard drive, installed Windows XP Pro first and left about 25 gigs of memory for the linux part. I installed Slackware 10.0 like normal, and made two bootdisks incase I lose one. LILO wouldn't install on a floppy so I just left it. I finished the installation, took the cd out and restarted the computer with the boot floppy but Windows booted but the floppy was in. I have my boot sequence as so: 1: Floppy 2: CD-ROM 3: Hard disk Is this happening because I didn't install LILO at all?
Back in the days you used to need one boot disk and one root disk to boot slack from floppys. Now i think(could be wrong) there's 5 root disks or some equaly silly number. Anyhow just having one sounds strange, unless it is a lilo bootdisk, which you say it is not.

What you can do is download the bootdisk and rootdisks from internet and use rawrite to re-create them in windows. Then boot, mount your / partition, chroot it and install lilo again.
Or you could use knoppix or some other distro that boots of a cd.

example:
#boot with floppys or a cd
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd
chroot /mnt/hd /bin/bash
#edit /etc/lilo.conf
lilo

Shields up! Rrrrred alert!
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Bah, I fixed the problem. I just installed LILO to the MBR and everything works fine now.

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