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[05:23]<-- mnz02 xrs fuyv (">Kids")
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[11:11]<vv>you beat me to taking it off channel
[11:12]<vv>is your problem occurring on a different computer than the one you are ircing with?
[11:12]<vv>i'm not in any hurry so take your time
[11:12]<aaolwd>this comp
[11:13]<aaolwd>rootnoverify (hd1,0)
[11:13]<vv> i can't believe how many connections i have reported by netstat -a
[11:13]<aaolwd>makeactive
[11:13]<vv>do you have something like label windoze?
[11:13]<aaolwd>yes
[11:13]<aaolwd>title Windows 2000
[11:14]<aaolwd>then that those lines
[11:14]<aaolwd>then
[11:14]<aaolwd>chainloader +1
[11:14]<vv># For booting Windows NT or Windows95
[11:14]<vv>#title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu
[11:14]<vv>#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
[11:14]<vv>#makeactive
[11:14]<vv>#chainloader +1
[11:14]<vv># For loading DOS if Windows NT is installed
[11:14]<vv># chainload /bootsect.dos
[11:15]<aaolwd>yes
[11:15]<vv>dunno about windows 2000
[11:15]<vv>i had it running at one time or another, long time ago
[11:15]<vv>rootnoverify (hd1,0)
[11:15]<vv>THAT is for your SECOND hard drive
[11:15]<aaolwd>ithought thre was something like mapto or something
[11:15]<vv>no
[11:16]<aaolwd>yes
[11:16]<vv>do you have makeactive?
[11:16]<aaolwd>yes
[11:16]<aaolwd>before the chainloader +1
[11:17]<vv>did you reinstall grub after 2000 was installed on hdb1?
[11:17]<aaolwd>yes
[11:17]<vv>not grub-install?
[11:17]<aaolwd>grub is loaded to (hd0)
[11:17]<aaolwd>i went into grub, and told it the fololowing
[11:18]<vv>ok
[11:18]<vv>good enough
[11:18]<aaolwd>root (hd1,2)
[11:18]<vv>just saying i wouldn't use grub-install
[11:18]<aaolwd>setup)hd0)
[11:18]<aaolwd>setup hd0)
[11:18]<aaolwd>gar
[11:18]<vv>so your /boot partition is on hd1,2?
[11:18]<aaolwd>you know what my fingers are garbling
[11:18]<vv>i do
[11:18]<aaolwd>it is also my /
[11:19]<vv>no
[11:19]<vv>shouldn't be
[11:19]<aaolwd>bah
[11:19]<aaolwd>works 90% of the time
[11:19]<vv>your /boot and / should be separate partitions
[11:19]<vv>possibly, but more confusing
[11:19]<aaolwd>not for me
[11:19]<vv>i'm taking a linux class that it should come up at least a few times again why debian doesn't do /boot separately by default
[11:19]<vv>i started that way
[11:20]<vv>i have been using linux for over 12 years
[11:20]<vv>took me a long time to understand
[11:20]<aaolwd>security for on
[11:20]<aaolwd>one
[11:20]<vv>separate /boot partition has many benefits
[11:20]<vv>access
[11:20]<aaolwd>yes
[11:20]<aaolwd>only root can mount
[11:20]<vv>you could put /boot on a flash drive
[11:21]<aaolwd>gah
[11:21]<vv>but anyway, back to your problem
[11:21]<aaolwd>how do i fix my dilemna?
[11:21]<vv>dilemma :)
[11:21]<vv>i've had windows on any drive before
[11:21]<vv>just because i could
[11:22]<vv>i've put windows 2000 at the very end of an 80 gb drive on hdd
[11:22]<vv>i've had lilo and grub on hda's mbr or fd0
[11:23]<aaolwd>got an idea, but it's weird
[11:23]<aaolwd>swap drive cables
[11:23]<vv>wait
[11:23]<vv>do you have a combo of ide/sata drives?
[11:23]<aaolwd>no
[11:23]<aaolwd>hda hdb
[11:24]<vv>do you have an add-n ide pci controller?
[11:24]<aaolwd>hdcor hdd is cd
[11:24]<aaolwd>no
[11:24]<vv>ok
[11:24]<vv>so simple setup
[11:24]<aaolwd>it's a compaq desktop
[11:24]<vv>no, leave cdrom as hdd
[11:24]<aaolwd>they don't make the blasted things screw-up-able
[11:25]<aaolwd>which also means they make it so you can hardly upgrade them
[11:25]<vv>right, so simply ide0 is hda/b and ide1 is hdc/d
[11:25]<vv>but

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