hey guys,
I've been having major problems trying to install Red Hat 7.2 in my machine. First, here's my setup:
Athlon XP 1800+
ASUS A7V266E w/ 256MB DDR RAM
Excalibur GeForce3 Ti 200 64Mb
Seagate Barracuda ST340016A (40GB ATA100)
Seagate Barracuda ST39173LW (8GB SCSI Ultra/Wide2)
Quantum Fireball SE4.3A (4.3 GB ATA)
Now, I'm running WinXP Pro on the ST340016A, with the page file on the SCSI. And I've been trying to install Red Hat 7.2 on the Fireball. My idea was to have each OS installed in different HDs, and change the boot sequence whenever I wanted to change the OS, thus requiring no use of boot managers of any sort.
But here is the problem: this system has been upgraded from a Pentium II 400. All that is left from that is the SCSI Barracuda and the Fireball. In that system, I had Win98 installed on the SCSI, and Red Hat 6.0 installed on the Fireball. For compatibility issues with the Intel Express Card I had then, I uninstalled Red Hat, changed the HD to FAT32, and used it with Windows ever since.
Recently, I got my hands on Maya 4.0.1. Unlimited for Linux, and decided it was time to go back to the good ole Red Hat. I downloaded the .ISO images from Tucows, burned the 2 CDs, and proceeded to install Red Hat 7.2 on the Fireball, as I had done some years ago. Everything went fine, even though there were no specific drivers for my video card or my monitor (19' LG Studioworks 99T).
I rebooted, changed the HD boot sequence, and prayed, hehe. Nothin doing. I had installed 7.2 using the GRUB as boot manager, in the first sector of the partition. But when the system tried to boot, it showed "LILO" on the screen and crashed. My guess is that, albeit all the formatting through the years, LILO is still lurking somewhere in the MBR. And since there's no "fdisk" on WinXP, I don't know how to format the MBR.
I haven't tried using a boot manager like BootMagic, even though my guess is that wouldn't work either. But I was hoping someone could have some idea on what I'm doing wrong, and how I could fix that.
thanks,
Solon.
I've been having major problems trying to install Red Hat 7.2 in my machine. First, here's my setup:
Athlon XP 1800+
ASUS A7V266E w/ 256MB DDR RAM
Excalibur GeForce3 Ti 200 64Mb
Seagate Barracuda ST340016A (40GB ATA100)
Seagate Barracuda ST39173LW (8GB SCSI Ultra/Wide2)
Quantum Fireball SE4.3A (4.3 GB ATA)
Now, I'm running WinXP Pro on the ST340016A, with the page file on the SCSI. And I've been trying to install Red Hat 7.2 on the Fireball. My idea was to have each OS installed in different HDs, and change the boot sequence whenever I wanted to change the OS, thus requiring no use of boot managers of any sort.
But here is the problem: this system has been upgraded from a Pentium II 400. All that is left from that is the SCSI Barracuda and the Fireball. In that system, I had Win98 installed on the SCSI, and Red Hat 6.0 installed on the Fireball. For compatibility issues with the Intel Express Card I had then, I uninstalled Red Hat, changed the HD to FAT32, and used it with Windows ever since.
Recently, I got my hands on Maya 4.0.1. Unlimited for Linux, and decided it was time to go back to the good ole Red Hat. I downloaded the .ISO images from Tucows, burned the 2 CDs, and proceeded to install Red Hat 7.2 on the Fireball, as I had done some years ago. Everything went fine, even though there were no specific drivers for my video card or my monitor (19' LG Studioworks 99T).
I rebooted, changed the HD boot sequence, and prayed, hehe. Nothin doing. I had installed 7.2 using the GRUB as boot manager, in the first sector of the partition. But when the system tried to boot, it showed "LILO" on the screen and crashed. My guess is that, albeit all the formatting through the years, LILO is still lurking somewhere in the MBR. And since there's no "fdisk" on WinXP, I don't know how to format the MBR.
I haven't tried using a boot manager like BootMagic, even though my guess is that wouldn't work either. But I was hoping someone could have some idea on what I'm doing wrong, and how I could fix that.
thanks,
Solon.
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