Dual boot with Linux mandrake ?

[Mal007colm]

I am attempting to Dual boot with 98se and Mandrake 7.2. Fdisk'ed a 15.2 gig maxtor drive into a 5 gig partition for the 98se install and left 9.8 gigs as the D partiton. Thing is in the install for Mandrake it hangs saying I have a Scsi device that it won't allow me to set up. I was told to disable the Ata 66/100 controller on my Asus A7V mobo to fix this. It seemed to work because I was able to get past the Scsi device problem once but it said there was no available (it either said available or recognized not sure which)drive to install too. I ran the install again and I am hung on the scsi device again although the controller is disabled in my bios. I guess I need help with that first and then how can I change the d partition from Fat32 back to fat16 so that Mandrake can recognize it.

Asus A7V mobo
Duron 700@700
Kingston pc-100 128 mb

 

[THELAIR]

okay, not sure on the scsi device problem, but just double check that ata66 is disabled and that your hard drive isnt connected to the ata66 connector.

Then what i would suggest is to use Fdisk and delete drive D, just leave it alone, mandrake will see that its a 15 gig drive and that 5 gigs of it is in a windows partition, it will ask you if you want to use the remaining free space. If you had the other 9 gig D:\ partition as fat32 or whatever, maybe mandrake couldnt see any free room.

I ve installed mandrake 7.2 at least a billion times now with different configs (my prob is with X Windows heh), but ive had enough fun fartin around with partitions as well. 7.2 does a good job, let it use the unallocated space, the only way you get that option to use unallocated space is if you get rid of your D:\ partition and just leave that extra space blank, mandrake will take care of it.

If/When you get everything setup, and you get to the lilo boot section (this is if you chose a customized install and not 'recommened', you can ADD entires to the boot loader, theres a few linux ones, Linux, Linux -fsb, safe, boot disc, etc ,but you can add a windows one. Works great for me, a nice addition to 7.2, i couldnt get it to work that way with mandrake 7.0, i had to do it the other way around with the win2k NT loader program and even then it barely worked.

Now i auto boot into linux, lilo boot manager pops up and i got into win2k, should work fine with win98

pretty slick...
now if only i could get a graphical user interface to appear

 

[SUOrangeman]

'startx' to get the graphical mode running? Or are you trying to get it to boot directly into graphical mode? If that's the case, edit /etc/inittab to start at run level 5 instead of 3 (first few lines after comments).

-SUO

 

[SemperFi]

Here is a great how to for the ata-100. I would not of been able to setup mandrake 7.2 without this.

Are you wanting to use the promise chip? If not disregard the link. Your motherboard bios needs to be 1004 or higher to disable promise bios. I think.

Also Mandrake will read fat32 no problems. It won't read ntfs out of the box.

If you are planning on using the promise controller and/or you can't seem to shut it off maybe I can help you shortcut a little of the above how to. In windows goto the promise controller in device manager and click resources tab. Are your input/output range 8000-8007, 7800-7803, 7400-7407, 7000-7003?

if your resources match mine above, in the how to noted above start at the install section and use "linux ide2=0x8000,0x7802" without quotes. I hope this did not confuse you more. I know it took about a half an hour to figure out what settings to use for this line. Maybe I am kind of slow.

I hope this helps.

BTW partitioning in suorangeman's signature was a valueable resource in setting up my triple boot system also.