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Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
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Linux/Windows 2000 box trouble: After I mentioned the trouble I was having with Win 2K trashing my Linux machine, gulker.com reader Bill Kearney was kind enought to write with some advice. You may recall that when I tried to install Win2K on a 2nd HD, it trashed the Linux boot record (even though I chose 'quit without installing'). Lacking a functioning floppy (and I didn't have a Linux boot disk anyway) I had to reinstall Linux, after I put Win 2K on the first hard drive in the IDE chain. USB wasn't showing up in the new installation. Bill was suspicious that merely installing Win2K had knocked the machine's USB ports out: he suggested trying a cheapie USB card (which I had laying around) and that got the detective work started. Culprit turned out to be the cool, new flourescent-lit enclosure for the iWill K266 board. It has USB ports on the front, and the extender cable is one of those straight-line pin jobs that gives you no clue and which can be installed in either of 2 ways. Pulling that plug (obviously I had it wrong) caused USB to reappear in Win 2K.
I still had the problem that, after reinstalling Linux, LILO wasn't seeing Win2K, I think because I chose to write LILO to the MBR, which I think Win2K wants to own. Fortunately, a Google search turned up 'Courtney Love Discusses Dual Booting Windows 2000 and Linux', where 'Courtney' is interviewed on just this topic. The information is good, the screenshots are helpful, the pictures of Courtney are fetching, and with a little help configuring lilo.conf from Linux, the Complete Reference, 4th Edition, I now have a machine that offers a nice, graphical choice of either Linux or Windows 2000 at boot-up. BTW, the default is Linux... Thanks, Bill! |
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Dotcom Garden update: we had our first full salad from the garden lettuce patch, and bunches of baby radishes have made very nice hostess/host presents for a couple weeks now. There are flowers on the early tomatoes, and our raised-from-seed heirloom tomatoes, beans and beets are all up and doing nicely. Tomatoes, beets, kholrabi in a month I think... Comments 1:30:12 PM 
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