Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP

[Joel Hammer]

Just for fun, I would make this disk the only disk on your machine,
attached to ide0, and see what happens. If it installs on on ide0, you can
leave it there. This lilo.conf works for my lindows box, which I double
boot with XP.

boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/cboot.b
message = /boot/splash.lilo
map=/boot/map
prompt
fix-table
lba32
delay=100
timeout=100
image=/vmlinuz
        label=L<>|
        vga=0xf04
        root=/dev/hda3
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19.gz
        append="acpi=off"
other=/dev/hdc1
        label=MS_W<>._XP
        map-drive=0x80
         to=0x81
        map-drive=0x81
         to=0x80

The fancy XP label was generated by lilo when it saw XP as the name of
this image. The remapping of the drive number is needed because XP has
to run on ide0. This works very nicely.

Joel

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:25:08PM -0400, Kirk Ingvoldstad wrote:
> 
> Greets:
> 
> I am trying to install RH 7.2, dual boot with XP Pro.  I installed second
> drive for RH.  BIOS sees it; Secondary Slave.  As RH install disk loads it
> sees the drive as hdd and correctly identifies it as Maxtor etc...
> 
> As it probes a few lines down it says:
> 
> hdd:hdd: irq timeout: status 0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete}
> 
> repeats this a few times, then:
> 
> ide1:reset: master error (0x00?}
> 
> tries a few more times then goes into the graphical install portion.  I get
> to partition info and select Manual with Disk Druid.
> 
> It tells me "The partition table on device hdd was unreadable.  To create
> new partitions it must be initialized."
> 
> I say YES, then:
> 
> Input/Output error during read on tmp/hdd
> 
> 
> I went back into XP and created a partition (FAT32).  Same results during RH
> install.  I went back to XP again (getting desperate here) and tried marking
> it ACTIVE, hoping for I don't know what.  Same results.
> 
> Any ideas or does it just sound like a bad drive?  Its new 20GB.
> 
> Kirk
> 
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