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2canSAM

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I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a System to dual boot with Windows 2000. I used the procedure over at littlewhitedog.com. I followed these to a T but apparently screwed up somewhere. Here is my setup right now.

Drive 1- on Primary IDE
c:\ Partition 1= 15.0 gb = Windows 2000, NTFS
e:\ Partition 2= 12.0 gb = Files, Fat32
f:\ Partition 3= 3.0 gb = Files, Shared, Fat32

Drive 2 - on Secondary IDE
d:\ 20.0 gb = Mandrake = \, \swp \usr partitions


Now mandrake seemed to install fine, made the boot disk and what not but when I boot the pc I get stuck at "LI" and it freezes. If I reboot off of the boot disk mandrake loads up fine. Also if I boot off a windows boot disk I can do FDISK /MBR and then reboot to Windows 2000. I have done this a bunch of times since the install but would prefer to be able to bypass the Linux Boot disk and having to do an FDISK /MBR everytime I want to go into Win2k. Is there some easy way to do this. A step by guide would be GREAT.

Problem 2. On my lan I have a Lexmark Marknet Print Server with 3 Paralled Ports. How can I setup Linux to print to these. I have tried using the Windows socket option and the LPD printer setup to know avail
 
I'd head over to www.xosl.org and use their boot manager. It will let you boot to Win2k and Mandrake easily (the graphical interface is a plus as well). It was relatively easy to set up. The catch is that you have to either install it in its own partition or onto a FAT/FAT32 partition (like your E: or F: drive).
 


<< Problem 2. On my lan I have a Lexmark Marknet Print Server with 3 Paralled Ports. How can I setup Linux to print to these. I have tried using the Windows socket option and the LPD printer setup to know avail >>



Try linuxdoc.org. They should have plenty of docs on setting up a printer.

As far as the LI stuff goes, try reinstalling LILO. I dont know what the heck the instructions you said you follow do (I didnt see a link to them on the site and the search function is broken there), but you did something wrong.
 
Thanks for the link! Ive seen the article just never had any use for it 😉

Q #9: I've followed your directions but when I choose Linux from the NT boot loader all I get is "LI" and then the PC freezes, what's up with that?

A #9: I'd say something went wrong when you modified the "lilo.conf" file. Make sure you do not change the "install=" line and only the "boot=" line. I've run into this problem myself during testing and got the same results. Try again and see if that was it, if not send me a copy of your "lilo.conf" file and I'll see what I can do!


EDIT: fixup
 


<< Q #9: I've followed your directions but when I choose Linux from the NT boot loader all I get is "LI" and then the PC freezes, what's up with that?

A #9: I'd say something went wrong when you modified the "lilo.conf" file. Make sure you do not change the "install=" line and only the "boot=" line. I've run into this problem myself during testing and got the same results. Try again and see if that was it, if not send me a copy of your "lilo.conf" file and I'll see what I can do! >>




That is one of my problems, I never even get the NT loader screen, just the freeze at "LI"

It's like LILO has overwritten my MBR becuase if I use the Windows boot disk and do an FDISK /MBR I can then reboot and boot into Win2k. I think something got really screwed and LILO probablly got put in the wrong place. Like you said prior I will reinstall and then take it from there.
 


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<< Q #9: I've followed your directions but when I choose Linux from the NT boot loader all I get is "LI" and then the PC freezes, what's up with that?

A #9: I'd say something went wrong when you modified the "lilo.conf" file. Make sure you do not change the "install=" line and only the "boot=" line. I've run into this problem myself during testing and got the same results. Try again and see if that was it, if not send me a copy of your "lilo.conf" file and I'll see what I can do! >>




That is one of my problems, I never even get the NT loader screen, just the freeze at "LI"

It's like LILO has overwritten my MBR becuase if I use the Windows boot disk and do an FDISK /MBR I can then reboot and boot into Win2k. I think something got really screwed and LILO probablly got put in the wrong place. Like you said prior I will reinstall and then take it from there. >>



It definitely installed over the MBR. Reinstall Linux and take a little more time 😛
 
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