Tranfering Linux

[Joshua Altemoos]

Just to state this i can not make a boot disk for linux. The Floppy
drive i had is defective and the other one i have does not haev teh same
pin setup so? What should i do i have linux installed allready and what
i am doing is tranfering teh data from one hd to another and makeing XP
the first HD and linux the second. How Can I Make This Work? Thanks

Josh

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 15:35, Kevin E. Glosser wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 15:01, Cyber Source wrote:
> > I have also never had a problem with it being master/slave or
> > whatever, it is totally configurable in lilo
> 
> When I put XP on, neither Grub nor Lilo would enter the second boot
> stage and become responsive. My machine just sat there.
> 
> I scoured the net looking for solutions. I found tons. Unfortunately,
> none of them were correct. Some pointed to the BIOS, some pointed to the
> boot loader being in the MBR as opposed to the first boot sector on the
> hard drive.
> 
> Other people gave workarounds for using XP's bootloader and then editing
> boot.ini. I didn't want to try this. There was no reason for Grub or
> Lilo to not work.
> 
> In the end, although the great majority of people(including Redhat's own
> documentation) said NOT to put Grub in the MBR, that is where I put it.
> 
> I have no real answer why previously it did not work, other than i
> believe a newer version of Grub may be the reason I eventually got it to
> work. However, it was odd that Lilo didn't work either. I had always
> used Lilo in the past.
> 
> Regardless, my previous post was meant to state that 1) the solution i
> used, does work 2) it IS possible to have issues dual booting NT/2000/XP
> and Linux and 3) for convenience I added the other recommendations.
> 
> Peter, is there a particular reason why you favor FAT32 over NTFS 5.1?
> Other, than what I already stated.
> 
> Microsoft file systems are traditionally considered crap. So, choosing
> one evil over the other isn't necessarily a joyful occasion. I've never
> heard anyone say they loved the FAT file system. I've never heard anyone
> say they liked NTFS either, but it does have some abilities FAT32
> doesn't. I'm just curious to what makes it unappealing.
> 
> Thanks for any response in advance.
> 
> KEG
>