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I need a 42 MB HDD
This prompted me for carefull preparation and action in deploying clean Windows XP Pro installation. I'm aware of license agreement terms. For that purpose I have 30 Then I imagined a system (convinient for system file and setting migration) with Windows boot loader to boot from one HDD's OS to other HDD's OS.

oh shit : did i just lose all my data?
I am trying to create a dual-boot system with W98 and XP. I wiped my hard-disk, re-partitioned it into two 14Gb partitions, and installed W98 onto the I upgraded the BIOS to Dell's A10 as per their XP preparation instructions. Anybody have any idea what I can try next? I have found several examples on the net

docs/43941: Rationale for Upgrade Sequence
If#2 you either go with a boot loader which fits between the card and the programmer. OR if you have an unlooper you can do the flashing an pin mod which is That said, I'm trying to help my kid get his "modified" system back on line and can't get a few things straight. As best as I can see, one needs an H card,

freebsd-current Digest, Vol 92, Issue 23
EDU mailing freebsd stable Thus spake Tim Bishop <tim-li...@bishnet.net>: I'm testing vinum on FreeBSD 4.7 in preparation for building a server. However, I seem to have come across a problem with What you apparently managed to do is use your boot loader on your first disk to load BootEasy on your second disk.

Can you Tripple boot? SuSE/RH/Win98?
98 preparation default for a 12GB drive and a FAT 32 file system) One 6GB partition and one 2GB partition (total 8GB) One 10GB partition (total 10GB) and so operating systems - The more common approach would be to use one primary partions for booting and then use a boot loader to select the operating system you

Partition Question
The operating system can be on any drive or partition in the system. And I definitely recommend multi-boot, too. It lets you install trial versions of new operating systems without fear of losing the previous, known-good system. Your boot loader is necessarily on your C: drive, and I like to keep only boot and data

PCI soundcards suck :-(
For example, you might modify the BOOT.INI file to add more descriptive entries for the Boot Loader Operating System Selection menu or to include various Boot Sequence After the computer loads NTLDR into memory, the boot sequence gathers information about hardware and drivers in preparation for the Windows XP

Cardbus controller
I also included some other information regarding the preparation and use of custom boot diskettes (of various formats such as 1.44MB, 2.88MB, etc.) for use with some imaging software (such as Ghost), which can be used for an immediate restore of a complete system. I tried to keep this article short, but given the

Linux Frequently Asked Questions (Part 2 of 6)
11* Do you plan to boot from your hard disk or floppy? 12* On which hard disk partition do you want LILO boot loader to reside? .... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Algologic acknowledges with gratitude the useful suggestions and inputs from many members of the Linux community, for preparation of this checklist.

article on os dev
Size : I did some size reductions yesterday in preparation for this patch. Taking into account the size reduction and this patch we are just 300 bytes, uncompressed, bigger. .... n"), Boot->name); - if ( (res = menuBox(prtbuf, _("Where should the LILO boot loader be installed?"), opt, 2, 1) == -1 )) - return 0;

Install 32 bit Version of XP Pro after x64
How-To-Repeat: Preparation: Take the GENERIC kernel, and compile in RAIDframe with the autodetect option. Create a disklayout such that sd0a and sd1a contain the kernel and the boot loader. sd0h and sd1h make up an autoconfig + root RAID1 array, raid0. raid0 contains a standard filesystem layout. raid0b is swap.

ACPI project progress report
1) you start with a dual boot system installed (W98 and suse82). I suppose grub is the installed boot loader. 2) you need some non allocated space (unpartitionned) on a hard disk 3) boot on redhat install cd; choose some kind of 'manual partitioning the hard disk(s)' during setup, and use : 3.1) create a new /boot

NT4 KB Listing (Caution - Long Post)
This will cause problems with any OS...the BIOS can't see the boot loader when this is the case. Hope this helps. Steve Sorry to jump in but I had similar problems with my Pentium II 266 processor on a P2L97 ASUS AGP Motherboard; the installation went fine till the end, when the system was loading the ide HBA.

boot-floppies auto partitioning & hardware detection
The 2nd two lines were NOT added by me: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] won't boot via BootMagic). Line 3, is a copy of the clone (copy of the 3rd primary on 2nd disk) that I put elsewhere on the 2nd hard disk in preparation of the deletion.

Install failure of Redhat Linux 5.2 onto FAT32(win98) system
Now most of the system works OK but i have some remaining problems. First sound card does not work. This is a Neomagic chip. You can set the IRQ in /boot/loader.conf. A line like the following would work: (NOTE: you may have to create /boot/loader.conf yourself) machdep.pccard.pcic_irq="11" Also,

2.5 'what to expect'
More of these documents are always in preparation. Please get in touch with Greg Hankins, < gr...@cc.gatech.edu>, the HOWTO coordinator, if you are interested in writing one. ..... LILO, the Linux bootloader, can boot one of several operating systems from a menu. See the LILO documentation for details.

FreeBSD Boot Manager rendering disk un-bootable
BT is a temporary folder where Windows NT setup copies some files in preparation for the remainder of the install. You can delete it prior to starting the Path : e:\i386 " I click enter and then I get an error message saying "Setup was unable to install Windows NT Boot Loader. Ensure that your c: drive is

2.5 'what to expect'
Creating a Printer 105250 Cannot use UNC Pathname for Working Directory in Windows NT 108393 MAXMEM Option in Windows NT BOOT. .... Not Function in Windows NT 156691 System Attribute Checkbox Disabled in Explorer and My Computer 156702 Windows NT 4 "Browse Folders Using a Seperate Window" Option 156903 Boot Loader

docs/62834: Diskless operation handbook section update
(Curiously, when moving from 4.x to 5.0, you're still running the old kernel here, because the new kernel is in a different place and the boot loader hasn't been updated yet.) 5) mergemaster -p This does some initial configuration file updates in preparation for the new world. 6) make installworld Copies the world

kernel/4003: kernel panic when doing "boot sync" in manually ...
Dave Jones da...@codemonkey.org.uk linux kernel In preparation for the flood of testers as we approach 2.6pre, I thought I'd give this doc another airing to be sure You should now use a boot loader program instead. - Callout tty devices (/dev/cua) have been deprecated since 2.1.90pre2. Support is now removed.