On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 14:10, Nikhil Karkera wrote:
Have 2 HDDs:
Master: 4 Gb [hda] Slave: 32 Gb [hdb] (is 40 Gb, but my BIOS treats it as 32 Gb)
Update your BIOS, you wish to live with 8GB missing because of old bios ???
Windows C: on hda. It has 2 more windows partitions.
For hdb the partitions are as follows:
hdb1 - Windows hdb2: hdb5, hdb6.... <10 partitions>. All Windows. hdb3 - Linux native, mount point / - 10Gb hdb4 - Linux swap - 200 Mb
It goes through the entire installation process, and asks me to reboot. But then directly boots into Windows. Tried Lilo & Grub. I explicitly asked to overwrite MBR during installation.
But is it overwriting the right one ? it might be overwriting /dev/hdb mbr, you need to put it in /dev/hda, check that.
Haven't tried with boot disk. Damn those floppies. All turned up with bad sectors :)
Tried RH Linux 7.2 & 5.0.
Any way out?
How about using Red Hat's rescue mode to boot to linux, fix lilo/grub config and install the boot loader ?
Best regards,
Rajesh