I'm getting rather confused now... so it's time to ask stupid questions
My pc has two hard drives, both PATA, both on primary IDE, 120Gb master, 80Gb slave.
The master 120Gb is my windows drive which is partitioned (strangely) as follows (partition numbering done by windows, as reported in cfdisk under linux)
/hda1 is FAT32 and is where windows stuck it's boot partition, along with some confused programs
/hda5 is NTFS where XPpro is installed, along with a few programs that couldn't handle being elsewhere
/hda6 is NTFS where the bulk of the programs, games, and files are stored
The slave 80Gb is where I want to install linux/mythTV so I figred knoppmyth would be a good idea. This is where the problems start...![]()
I have to use the "manual install" option as knoppmyth is heading for hdb rather than the default hda. I've tried partitioning the slave drive into bits for linux. 6Gb for / 2Gb for swap 2Gb for /cache rest for /myth. The install instructions give ambiguous info on this saying make 3 partitions, then it names 4, and the installer only wants one...arg. Anyway, it seems happy with me selecting hdb1 and installs sucessfully...supposedly using lilo.
on booting up I stop the pc from going in to XP and select to boot from IDE1 (slave drive)
it finds the boot record, but:
GRUB loading stage 1.5
...
Error 15 (means file not found - what file I don't know...)
earlier I had a go at installing Ubuntu, and that went fine, it installed happily on the slave drive, and set up a dual-boot selection thingy etc. I did have to use the XP recovery to fixboot and fixmbr to get windows to work again after I overwrote ubuntu of course but what I really want is for knoppmyth to work! Must be something in the setiings during install that I'm missing...
if I opened up the pc, removed the primary master, set the primary slave to master, installed knoppmyth on there, then set it back to slave, put in the original master, should I be able to select to boot up off the slave drive?


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