figure this one out and i'll give you a dollar

[Asubit]

I've got win2k pro installed on one partition on my vaio, and red hat 7 on the other..
problem is these vaios only allow either the cd drive or floppy in th bay (mods - check your filters, it wouldn't allow 'th* bay' because it picked it up as e*ay'} one at a time. So when it asks to create a bootable during the rh installation I can't.. I can't just take the cd out and put the floppy in, I've already tried that one.

I'm not getting a boot prompt, by either OS. How am I going to get around this?

 

[Eyebeam]

This probably won't be of much help for you now, but I used this little trick on an old 486 laptop with the same port config as your viao. I formatted the c: drive so it would boot, created a boot disk with CD support, copied the win95 directory onto the hard drive, then rebooted and installed windows. You could probably do something similar using seperate partitions (with windows on one of them), too. You might pull the hard drive and hook it up with a 2.5" drive power adapter to a desktop system for the formatting and copying... anyway, that's the only way I will install an operating system on a laptop is by 1st copying the OS to the hard drive. It sucks, but gets you into windows where your devices will (hopefully) be detected.


the Tao of Steve

 

[anton]

Just don't create bootable floppy during install, create it sometime later

 

[OmegaXero]

You're not getting a boot prompt? Can't you just boot off the win2k cd?

 

[crohozen]

I would just go to a another computer pop the rh cd in and make a bootdisk using rawrite (readme file on how is on the cd) pop the bootdisk in boot up runs sbin/lilo and voila fixed the mbr problem that you have. That is assuming you completed the rh installation. If you didnt I would boot off the rh cd and reinstall red hat and then make a boot disk later once I was in either system. Where is my dollar?