madserb
01-25-2004, 04:02 PM
Hi,
I have 2 HDD's. On one I have windows installed (2k&XP) and on the other one I figured I'd install knoppix just to give it a try, since I'm not only knoppix newbie but also Linux newbie :oops:
I have installed Knoppix 3.1 (the latest one i could get from a local cd shop :roll: ) on the primary slave disk and during the instalation i had no probs. BUT: when i tried to boot linux lilo wouldnt boot and all it showed is bunch of zeros and ones or 99 99 ..... what does it mean? how can i make it boot from primary slave? Just for the record: it DOES boot if i switch the disk to which im installing it to to primary master or if i boot from the boot diskette...
Now, some of you are probably wondering why didnt i install lilo to the MBR of the first hdd, why did i even try to boot it form the secondary in the first place. Well the answer to that is that on the first HDD i had to install DDO driver, due to some BIOS-HDD detection problems and i dont know how lilo and DDO "get along".... so im stuck :( Im affraid that lilo might overwrite MBR and remove DDO and in that case all of the data on the "windows" HDD would be lost
What should i do?
I have 2 HDD's. On one I have windows installed (2k&XP) and on the other one I figured I'd install knoppix just to give it a try, since I'm not only knoppix newbie but also Linux newbie :oops:
I have installed Knoppix 3.1 (the latest one i could get from a local cd shop :roll: ) on the primary slave disk and during the instalation i had no probs. BUT: when i tried to boot linux lilo wouldnt boot and all it showed is bunch of zeros and ones or 99 99 ..... what does it mean? how can i make it boot from primary slave? Just for the record: it DOES boot if i switch the disk to which im installing it to to primary master or if i boot from the boot diskette...
Now, some of you are probably wondering why didnt i install lilo to the MBR of the first hdd, why did i even try to boot it form the secondary in the first place. Well the answer to that is that on the first HDD i had to install DDO driver, due to some BIOS-HDD detection problems and i dont know how lilo and DDO "get along".... so im stuck :( Im affraid that lilo might overwrite MBR and remove DDO and in that case all of the data on the "windows" HDD would be lost
What should i do?