[ILUG] Two Hard Drives Boot Problem

[Declan Moriarty]

Was it Marek Mc Gann who wrote on Wednesday 23 January 2002 10:08:
> Hi All,
>
> Just inherited a wonderful new machine with 10GB and 40GB hard drives (both
> IDE).
>
> Mandrake 8.1 went onto the 40GB one with no difficulty, but now neither
> Linux nor Windoze will boot (it was used to booting from the 10GB). Having
> a trawl around the web suggests that I've not got the second drive set to
> bootable (silly me), but should this be interfering with Win98 too?
>
> Linux gives me that lovely welcome in a hundred languages, indicates init
> 2.78 is going to work, then hangs.
>
> Windows says something about a chainloader and does the same.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated,

You need to save your a**? 
http://www.toms.net/rb

There is a floppy linux distro that builds under Dos, or linux. You can boot 
on it, login as root, and pasword xxxx. It has all the rescue material you 
want. A few things you need to know:

To mount a dos/vfat partition
# insmod dmsdos
# mount -t msdos /dev/whatsit /mnt

It has fdisk to set things up, and you can mark the disk as bootable with it.
Be aware that hdx1-4 are primary partitions, and hdx5-> are logical drives in 
the extended partition.  AFAIK, it doesn't matter as long as the first 
recognized partition is primary and bootable - lilo starts you from anywhere, 
primary or extended, bootable or not. 

Ideally, mount the linux disk on /mnt, and the dos one on the appropiate 
poing in the tree. You can then chroot to /mnt and run lilo. To get out of 
that, type exit (I think)


>
> Marek
> (Still a newbie)
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	Declan Moriarty




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