RH Linux anyone? (Dual booting...)

[GremlinHater]

Alright, I have Win98SE on one harddrive of one of my older computers and now RHL 7.1 on the other with LILO installed on the MBR, windows is the default boot option but when it boots is says something like...

Loading windows
| (<---blinking indicator)

And that's it, what's wrong? I boot into linux fine and if I go in and switch my ribbons, windows works fine, I did mount my windows drive to be able to access files on it but I don't think that should have screwed it up. Any help please? I am TOTALLY NEW to linux so I'm as clueless as an uneducated adult.

Also, when I try to connect to the internet I couldn't so I went in and tested the modem in linux and says it can't initialize the modem that I configured using rp3, how do I get it to initialize the modem?

 

[TheSaint51]

first make sure you're using a 'real' modem not a winmodem. the lilo boot problem is most likely due to the 1024-cylinder limit issue. you have to add a short thing to the very beginning of lilo.conf and i'm sorry but i can't remember exactly what it is right now. when i find out i'll post it, and in the meantime you can just look up the lilo 1024 cylinder problem on search engine and you'll probably find the solution. good luck.. by the way, redhat sucks, use mandrake 8.1

 

[TheSaint51]

o wait i think the command you add is 'lba32'
just put lba32 on the first line of lilo.conf
or you can just use grub instead of lilo, i had the same problem with lilo when installing mandrake so i reinstalled it and chose grub as the bootloader instead of lilo and now it works perfectly.

 

[GremlinHater]

Hey, thanks! I'll give that a try, I'm also planning on experimenting with mandrake, it's just right now that I'm &quot;testing&quot; to see which on is for me.

As for the modem, I'm pretty sure it's a true modem, it's a ZOOM, can't remember what model though.

 

[GremlinHater]

added lba32 to my lilo.conf and it didn't work, any other suggestions?


what's grub? how do I get that during the installation?