N00b needs help with installation and booting!

[Calidore]

Hello!

When partitioning in RH8.0 installer I get this msg:

WARNING:

Boot partition / may not meet booting constraints for your archichecture. Creaton of a boot disk is higly encouraged.

What does this mean?

After that the installation goes ok. When restarted system dont load me a boot loader Grub! What's wrong?

What shoud i chose when asked for your primary boot sys (I have to chose DOS or Red Hat linux) ?

and

When asked where my boot loader shoud be installed (MBR or first sector on ...)

Please help!

PS. My english is not so great :) sory bout that.

[homey]

"Boot partition / may not meet booting constraints for your archichecture. Creaton of a boot disk is higly encouraged. "


That just means that you didn't make a /boot partition. That's no big deal as I don't either. :)
However, that does mean that you will need to use the MBR which is also what I do with no problem.

It doesn't matter which system is your primary system. That just means that if you turn the computer on and forget to choose one or the other, the primary one will start after a short delay.

If you did make the boot disk ( hope so ) and you are able to get into redhat, you can edit the file /etc/grub.conf to include windows and to set the timeout so you have more time to choose.

Here is an example using the MBR which is
boot=/dev/hda

Windows 2000 is on 1st drive and 1st partition
rootnoverify (hd0,0)

Peanut Linux is on the 1st drive and 2nd partition
root (hd0,1)

Redhat Linux is on the 2nd drive and 2nd partition
root (hd1,1)


# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd1,1)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb2
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd1,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title Peanut Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda2

title Red Hat Linux
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img