rohandhruva
11-16-2004, 10:07 PM
Hi,
I dual boot b/w XP HOme on /dev/hda1 and knoppix 3.6 on /dev/hda6 (ext3).
The LILO that comes with knx2hdd with 3.6 version has really bad colors, so i decided to use NTLDR to load linux. i followed the steps correctly, made a bootsect.lnx... and so on. but then i did not add entry to boot.ini as of yet. just then isaw that knoppix include GRUB. so, uninstallinh lilo from /dev/hda6 i did a grub-install. grub just didnt work, it shows a blank screen with no options - i tried changing timeout and everything - to no avail. so know devoid of grub as well as lilo i cannot boot into linux at all. i tried using knoppix cd and chrooting to /dev/hda6 didnt work and running lilo command gave some error about /boot not being writable!! :( i am really screwed. i have bootsect.ln - but its of no use as theres no lilo in /dev/hda6. PLEASE HELP. thankx.
also, as a bonus could someone help me with installing grub too? i will be posting lilo.conf and menu.lst shortly, in about 4 days, as i am not near my computer. which is better - lilo or grub?
rohan.
I dual boot b/w XP HOme on /dev/hda1 and knoppix 3.6 on /dev/hda6 (ext3).
The LILO that comes with knx2hdd with 3.6 version has really bad colors, so i decided to use NTLDR to load linux. i followed the steps correctly, made a bootsect.lnx... and so on. but then i did not add entry to boot.ini as of yet. just then isaw that knoppix include GRUB. so, uninstallinh lilo from /dev/hda6 i did a grub-install. grub just didnt work, it shows a blank screen with no options - i tried changing timeout and everything - to no avail. so know devoid of grub as well as lilo i cannot boot into linux at all. i tried using knoppix cd and chrooting to /dev/hda6 didnt work and running lilo command gave some error about /boot not being writable!! :( i am really screwed. i have bootsect.ln - but its of no use as theres no lilo in /dev/hda6. PLEASE HELP. thankx.
also, as a bonus could someone help me with installing grub too? i will be posting lilo.conf and menu.lst shortly, in about 4 days, as i am not near my computer. which is better - lilo or grub?
rohan.