[H-GEN] Dual Booting WinNT/RH6.2 with a dash of SCSI

[john rogers]

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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Raymond Smith wrote:
> My current problem is that LILO appears to be broken.
nnoooooooo !
> 
> Scenarios
> 
> 1/ W2K all by itself -- all is well
> 2/ RH 6.2 all by itself -- all is well
> 3/ RH 6.2 installed. Try to install W2K barfs because it wants the
>    first sector of the disk or it is taking its ball and going home.

this should not matter, install NT then rerun LILO , to do this you will have
boot off inst cd or floppy,  mount the root disk, then run 
"lilo -r /path/mountpoint"
 installing  LIlO onto MBR eg "boot=/dev/sda"   

>    => Prob 1: I can't coerce W2K to install after a RH install on the
>       disk.
I cant coerce W2K to do anything :-)
> 
> 4/ W2K installed and working. Install Linux either
> 	(a) LILO in MBR. Boot doesn't get past LI
stops at LI means cant run second stage loader,usally this is because of a
large first disk.  eg can`t read root partition.
 
> 	(b) LILO in another partition. When I try to get the
>	bootsector 
>             from this by 'dd if=/dev/sda2 of=blah bs=512 count=1'
>             This boot sector is empty (all 0x0s).
> 
> So basically LILO seems unable to cope with being far from the start of
> the SCSI disk? Does this sound right, or am I just going mad?       

no not at all, a LILO limitation,  first partition should not go beyond 1024
cylinders .  this can be anywhere from 500Mb to 8Gb depending on your 
BIOS/controller.  


-- 
John Rogers
jhnboy at ozemail.com.au

> I will try grub tomorrow and see if it can boot 2K and RH...
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Raymond
> 
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