where can i get partition magic and....

[shawn barnett]

i used the run option and all it did was i saw a slight flash on the screen and the run box fanished..i then rebooted and it still did not bring up anything else but the option for linux ...now i have a question is there a way to view the contents of hda from a linux environment even though hda is in a windows format?

[Stuart Browne]

run box? oh. x environment.

I always forget that not all people use shells.

Given that it's NTFS, you might be able to get read access, but I don't think you'll get that out-of-the-box on a RH7 machine.

You'd need to re-compile parts of the kernel to include the experimental (read-only) NTFS access stuff.

[shawn barnett]

sorry bout that does this new info where lilo is change any of the coding?and i apologize this is a new os for me

[Stuart Browne]

You'll have an icon somewhere to open up a shell (console/terminal). do that. Then issue the command 'lilo'. What does it say?

[shawn barnett]

Fatal: open /vmlinuz 2.2.16-22 :invalid file or directory

[Stuart Browne]

I don't suppose you took a snapshot of what /etc/lilo.conf was on the HDD before you modified it?

In any case, you'll need to change that entry to point to '/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22', or whatever version your current kernel is.

Once you change the setting, re-run lilo, and see what it says then.

[shawn barnett]

you mean modify the file to point the boot location to there ...correct?

[Stuart Browne]

I mean:

boot=/dev/hda
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=Linux
root=/dev/hdb3
other=/dev/hda3
label=WinXP

[shawn barnett]

ok lilo added it now should i reboot using just the harddrive version of the file or should i use my boot disk?

[Stuart Browne]

Reboot without the boot-disk, and see what happens.