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Title: DUAL BOOTING PROBLEM
Post by: shahryarahmed on May 22, 2004, 04:08:10 PM
HI
    i have a win 2000 server installed. i have 5 partitions. i want to dual boot with linux. i have boot linux 7.3 and 8.0 with cdrom but the screen stops at the following point
partition check:
hda:
l have left the system in that conditions for 1 hour but not result.
i have another formatted hard disk
when i boot linux in it then it goes normally
how could  i solve that problem
thanks
Title: DUAL BOOTING PROBLEM
Post by: dalek on May 22, 2004, 04:49:21 PM
Sometimes there are bugs in the installer on specific hardware.  I can remember that Mandrake 9.1 had some issues with my hardware.  You may want to go to the website, Redhat, Mandrake or whatever it is, and see if there are any listed there.  

You may also want to unplug and USB or firewire devices.  I even had to unplug my HP printer that was on a parallel port.  

It is very likely that it sees some piece of hardware that it can't figure out what it is.  Remove that and it should continue on.

There can of course be something else that will be posted.  Someone may post that has ran into the exact same thing and found a fix.

You may want to post what your hardware is.  That may help.  Also, is it Redhat, Mandrake or what distro are you using.

Later

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Title: DUAL BOOTING PROBLEM
Post by: shahryarahmed on May 23, 2004, 12:14:29 PM
i have redhat linux 8.0 and 7.3

i have 1GHZ pentium processor
128 MB RAM
nvdia tnt 2 vga card
40 GB seagate hard disk
while i have not attach any USB device and printer
thanks
Title: DUAL BOOTING PROBLEM
Post by: dragoncity99 on May 23, 2004, 03:58:04 PM
U may want to check ur BIOS boot options..
Coz, i use autodetect  option to make the environment generic enough to avoid that problem both for harddisk and cdrom.