First question
Well, I've been meaning to try out Linux for going on two years now, and just finally got the extra hard-drive and patience to download the ISOs which was necessary. I'm having a hell of a time booting it without a bootdisc, though.
This situation I'm in now is thus.
I presently have 3 harddrives in, HDA (Windows XP Pro, NTFS) HDB (file storage, FAT32) and HDD. HDD has three partitions, /boot (ext3) / (ext3) and the swap (Swap, duh). When installing LILO, I'm given a warning that it may not be able to read BIOS information on HDD, but still installs itself. If I boot the computer with LILO as the loader, I get an "L" and then a hang. The lilo.conf is correct, it's based directly off of a friend of mine's (exclusive Linux user 3+ years, I trust him) and he verifies it should work properly.
Using GRUB is a bit better, I can boot into Windows with it. Attempting to
This situation I'm in now is thus.
I presently have 3 harddrives in, HDA (Windows XP Pro, NTFS) HDB (file storage, FAT32) and HDD. HDD has three partitions, /boot (ext3) / (ext3) and the swap (Swap, duh). When installing LILO, I'm given a warning that it may not be able to read BIOS information on HDD, but still installs itself. If I boot the computer with LILO as the loader, I get an "L" and then a hang. The lilo.conf is correct, it's based directly off of a friend of mine's (exclusive Linux user 3+ years, I trust him) and he verifies it should work properly.
Using GRUB is a bit better, I can boot into Windows with it. Attempting to
root (hd3,0) will grant me a "file-system tpye unknown" message. rootnoverify (hd3,0) followed by an attempt to give it a kernel path informs me that it could not mount the partition. The confusion in this is that if I boot psyche through the syslinux disc, and then run grub from inside, it mounts, associates the kernel and initrd perfectly fine. Any ideas at all? I'm stumped entirely. I could, of course, provide the config files for review if necessary. 