Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:54:12 -0500 | From | Bob Cthulhu <> | Subject | Can't load Linux on boot |
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I have Slackware 96 (3.1) off the CD in the books they have at Barnes & Noble. (Hey, everyone's got to start somewhere, right?) I haven't upgraded at all yet, because I've been trying to get my Linux partition to boot first.
I have a Pentium Celeron 333A (overclocked to 400) with IDE hdd and 40x CD. I have Linux on hda1 (1 gig partition), and Win98 on hda2 (1 gig partition), with a 2 gig fat16 partition on hda3 with data for Linux and windows.
The only reason I'm still running Windows at all is because when I installed Linux, my computer told me there was no operating system.
LILO is on my MBR, and on top of that, the Linux partition is the ONLY active partition - yet when I boot, I don't get so much as 'L', and I get "Starting Windows 98" instead! If I put a LILO boot disk into the floppy drive, I can mount hda1 as root, but it doesn't seem to recognize the first partition as being active normally, nor does it run LILO from the MBR. I can't figure out why, especially since I installed Linux before Windows (the main reason I installed windows at all is because it was getting frustrating not being able to boot off the hard drive).
The only thing I can think of is that it could be because my BIOS is Plug & Pray. It's a stretch, but...
If anyone knows what's going on, please tell me.
Thanks in advance, Ethan
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