Win2000Pro & Linux Boot

[edz]

Hi,

I have win 2000 installed on my ide hd /dev/hda & its booting now with just win 2000 . I installed Linux on my scsi hd /dev/sda5 with lilo install on /dev/sda5 .

I want to have it boot from my boot.ini in C: win 2000 . I set it up with the linux.bin & put it in C:\ & setup my boot.ini like this.


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\linux.bin="RedHat-Linux 8.0"


I made the linux.bin in linux like this .

dd if=/dev/sda5 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin


But when I try to boot all I get is LI. I have set it up this way be 4 on another pc but it was on all the same hd /dev/hda there are 6 hd's in this pc . Any one know what I am doing wrong here ?

Thanks for any help on this.

[Saptech]

Did you run /sbin/lilo -v as root after creating the bin file?

[edz]

I did run /sbin/lilo be 4 but I didn't use the -v so I ran it again & this is the out put.

[root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx root]# /sbin/lilo -v
LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman

Reading boot sector from /dev/sda5
Warning: /dev/sda5 is not on the first disk
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Mapping message file /boot/message
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14smp
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14smp.img
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added linux *
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added linux-up
Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.b
Added DOS
/boot/boot.0805 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.

I get the same thing just LI when I try to boot into linux.
Maybe I should put linux on my first disk or is there anything else I can try to do ?
I also tried bootting with Boot Magic & I get the same thing just LI ?

[terribleRobbo]

I'm getting the same problem, except I'm booting off /dev/hdb2 (using the NTLoader with linux_bs.bin in the boot.ini, as per above).

Maybe you just can't get NTLoader to boot something that isn't on the first drive...?

[ev8r]

where is the /boot partition located on your hard disk?
on some systems you'll have to move the boot partition to below the 1024 cylinder boundry on the harddrive to get it to load properly

[DMR]

If you're getting as far as the infamous "LI"; ntldr has done its job and passed the the remaining stages of the Linux bootup to lilo.

Post your /etc/lilo.conf file and tell us what distro and version of Linux you're using.