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Forum Post lilo boot by Howard
Not entirely true. 'boot=/dev/fd0' places the first stage loader (boot sector) on the floppy drive. This is okay for booting from a hard disk. Just be sure not to overwrite the map file ...
Forum Post Ranting: Linux Fails Me Once Again by soumitra
LILO doesn't just fail, it's not finding your boot image. There are a number of things that could cause this, 1) The partition table of your disk changed or corrupted 2) The boot order o...
Forum Post Grub or Lilo with 1.2TB RAID? by jasper
Raid1? Mirror? OK, but then you can just as well boot without an initrd. It shouldn't. I have plenty of machines that can't boot from scsi, let alone boot from raid. For them one nee...
Forum Post Using make on RedHat and YDL 2.2 by jasper
Thanks to all. Looks like i will have to dual boot my PC. Thanks...
Forum Post Use partition magic 8 or Buy a new hard drive? by Woodstock
...VERY strange indeed. even if you're using an os such as win2k, and alter the partitions, it HAS TO BOOT to real-mode, it's the only way it can have control of the system....
Forum Post mount a NTFS windows 2000 partition read-write by johndippel
is there a way to mount a NTFS windows 2000 partition read-write? Is there a boot disk available supporting this. I tried leka's but alas it was RO.
Forum Post Newbie Question: What Do I Want To Download For Linux? by ppreddy
...refine their error messages to be more down to earth. The problem was I had Solaris installed as a dual boot with windows. The installer saw the foreign mbr and saw no space to get into so it just pan...
Forum Post Root partition size challenge by chandu
...e found out that root partition is full. But actually it isn't. du reports 6.8M /bin 5.2M /boot 339K /dev 19M /etc 1.9G /home 1.0K /initrd 41M /lib 12K /lost+found 763M /misc 3.0K /mnt 1....
Forum Post Moment of truth by Linda
Experience has shown me that all points lead to an open source solution, whether it be a *BSD or a Linux distribution. The software does a damn fine job, and makes possible incremental upgrades instea...
Forum Post Mandrake 9 vs Gentoo by biddy
...GI STL documentation or the PYthon html documentation loaded on it ). The second is often I use as dual boot ( hopefully for Linux programming work when I can find that )....
 

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