Originally posted by McoreD+Dec 5 2002, 08:51 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (McoreD @ Dec 5 2002, 08:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--oscar2043@Dec 2 2002, 03:28 AM
from linux:
lilo -u /dev/hda
from Xp :
boot into xp recovery console
run fixmbr
help (for help) about other commands
oscar2043, where do we type "lilo -u /dev/hda" in linux, please? is it in Interactive Mode"?
i tried to change the settings in LiLo to get back the graphical boot menu (also tried Grub but it was a text based boot menu) and it became worse
after i restarted, the screen was like this:
Verifying pool data....
99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
the hard disk light was flashing till the "99"s were generated, but stopped after that. i booted from the XP CD and ran fixmbr, but the same thing happened
so booted again with the XP CD and reinstalled XP. and after all those trouble, reinstalled Linux
i am still struggling to install VMWare. i managed to access the VMWare folder thanks to craftyc, using /mnt/nt
but i have no idea what to do with ".tar.gz" (VMware-workstation-3.1.1-1790.tar.gz)
i extracted them but couldn't see a file with the .rpm extension. (oh! btw, in windows: just dbl click the .exe and press next, next, next and finish.
)
but i really like to try this challenging things. i am so embarrased at my performance. but anyway, all of us should learn some thing for the first time.
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lilo -u /dev/hda things like these must be run in a terminal ( the black screen with white letters
). lilo, grub...actually everything is very dangerous if you dont know what are you doing and it is not easy to learn about linux without reading about every step. Too much reading, to much time. Linux it is not so easy.
It is a good idea installing mc (midnight commander, much like norton commander). Open a terminal and run mc to see if it is already installed.
It is great to opening *.tar.gz (it copies the content to folders)
Then cd new folder and run
./configure
make
make install