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Article #921Re: Dual boot question
From: Marijan Peh
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:22
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:22
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On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:44:38 -0000, Arnie Owen wrote: > System is Athlon 800, Seagate 20GB HDD IDE (ATA66), 512Mb RAM, 32Mb Geforce2 > MX Video. Not a year old yet. > > Have already tried to install using LILO thing, about 10 attempts using > Turbo Linux 6.0 (boxed version). > I have also now installed Partition manager and have tried to install by > moving the Linux boot partition right to start of HDD (to get around 1024 > cyl or 2Gb problem), still no joy. Would like to avoid using BIOS to select > boot setting if poss, already have BootMagic and that doesn't help (even > though it saw the Linux partition and saw that it was bootable). Older distributions of linux(with 2.2.x kernel) don't have support for disk with ATA66 interface, maybe that is problem ... try newer distribution with 2.4.x kernel(rh7.2,mdk8.1) -- You came out of nowhere with drums of thunder and a heart of gold. Welcome to the inner circle. You're the king of the digital hill.
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