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Re: [Plug] A question about installing Linux
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Sometimes booting into dos with a floppy and doing a fdisk /mbr then
booting back into linux with a floppy and reinstalling lilo works for me.
Of course that works great when lilo mysteriously disappears and windows
boots up without my permission.
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Michelle Weber
umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, ray beckler wrote:
> Andy Bradley wrote:
>
> > I have been pretty much just lurking for a few months and decided it
> > was time to get a Linux box running. I have a problem loading Red Hat.
> > This is my first real attempt at Linux or any Unix OS. I have a P133
> > with 48 meg ram, a 4.3 gig western digital HD partitioned into two ~2
> > gig partitions using Western Digital's EZ drive. My bios does not
> > support large drives. I have Windows 95 on the first partition and
> > have installed RH on the second partition. I wish to dual boot the
> > box. The install seems to go smoothly. I set up the Linux native and
> > swap partitions, choose the packages to install. Everything is fine
> > until it is time to reboot. I get the Ram Check, EZ Bios runs and
> > then I just get "LI" and the box freezes up. Now I can not get at the
> > Win95. Is Linux compatible with EZ Bios? Is there something else I
> > am missing? TIA Andrew Bradley
>
> Andrew,
>
> I get the "LI" usually after a win95 blow up. Just powering down and
> restarting usually does the trick. I also got it just after installing
> lilo for the first time.
>
> I've got redhat6.0, SCO openserver 5.2 and win95 on the same machine.
> Lilo is installed on the second partition of my primary drive. I had
> problems with it on the first partition. Where did you install it? Try
> the second partition.
>
>
>
> ray
>
>
>
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