Two questions - restoring LILO versus NT boot, and Dynamic Disks / Windows XP
I have upgraded my WinXP root Disk (C) to a Dynamic Disk. It's a u160 SCSI drive and I was seeing less than stellar performance under XP; upgrading to dynamic has brought back its speed. My problem is that it took my LILO MBR with it.. I now don't have access to my Suse 8.0 pro install. I can still boot in recovery mode and mount it, but can't seem to boot it. Wasn't there once a way to boot Linux directly from the Windows NT/XP startup screen? Make a third option for linux and use the "boot" command or some such? (Trying to remember back to Suse 6.4) If that's no longer an option, I am wondering if I do reinstall 8.0 Pro from scratch, will Suse have a problem writing Lilo to the MBR of a dynamic disk? If anyone can share some hints, I'd appreciate it. Thanks Sean
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:44:32 -0400 Sean McGrath <seanmcgpa@comcast.net> wrote:
I have upgraded my WinXP root Disk (C) to a Dynamic Disk. It's a u160 SCSI drive and I was seeing less than stellar performance under XP; upgrading to dynamic has brought back its speed.
My problem is that it took my LILO MBR with it.. I now don't have access to my Suse 8.0 pro install. I can still boot in recovery mode and mount it, but can't seem to boot it. Wasn't there once a way to boot Linux directly from the Windows NT/XP startup screen? Make a third option for linux and use the "boot" command or some such? (Trying to remember back to Suse 6.4)
If that's no longer an option, I am wondering if I do reinstall 8.0 Pro from scratch, will Suse have a problem writing Lilo to the MBR of a dynamic disk?
Why reinstall if it's still there? Maybe I don't understand what happened to your MBR, but why don't you just boot linux from a rescue disk, start yast2 and reinstall lilo? Adding your XP partition to the boot-menu? Or if you are knowledgable enough, just edit /etc/lilo.conf adding the windows partition, and then run lilo? -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
On Monday 01 July 2002 08:44, Sean McGrath wrote:
I have upgraded my WinXP root Disk (C) to a Dynamic Disk. It's a u160 SCSI drive and I was seeing less than stellar performance under XP; upgrading to dynamic has brought back its speed. Yes, the only way to get reasonable write performance on SCSI from XP is a dynamic disk. Strange. Something like the old one sector written per disk revolution. Shouldn't this be enough to stop people from using XP with SCSI?
My problem is that it took my LILO MBR with it.. I now don't have access to my Suse 8.0 pro install. I can still boot in recovery mode and mount it, but can't seem to boot it. Wasn't there once a way to boot Linux directly from the Windows NT/XP startup screen? Make a third option for linux and use the "boot" command or some such? (Trying to remember back to Suse 6.4) You can install lilo or grub on /boot or /, and copy the 512 byte image to a Windows file, which you invoke from boot.ini, the same way it has been at least since NT4. With XP, you don't need to know about boot.ini, since there is a built-in script to edit it with NotePad, should you choose not to use your favorite linux text editor. Should work the same with any linux distro.
If that's no longer an option, I am wondering if I do reinstall 8.0 Pro from scratch, will Suse have a problem writing Lilo to the MBR of a dynamic disk? Wouldn't surprise me if lilo had difficulty hooking up with a dynamic disk. As others said, re-installing SuSE per se shouldn't make any difference.
-- Tim Prince
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