[LI] Re: RH 6.1, display resolution problem and many others.

["Narendra Y Kadoo" <narendra_kadoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 Dharmesh <dharmeshvora76@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote

>>I already had win95 and winnt on the PC. So when i installed RH 6.1,
>>it made a dual booting with win95 and the option to select winnt >>disappeared
>>(i mean the windows NT boot loader has been wiped out and LILo has taken
>>over). Any ideas as to how  to get my option to boot winnt once again,
>>keepin the existing installation of RH 6.1 and 95 intact?
>>
>>Also, i created a boot disk for the linux booting, so as i try to boot
>>linux from the boot disk it gives me a cryptic error of '0*10' and stops
>>booting. The floppy diskettes are definetly in working order (cross checked
>>and also brand new). Any ideas as to what this cryptic error means and how
>>to boot linux succesfully from the boot disk?
>>
>>when i boot into rh 6.1 it gives me a resolution of 1024 * 760, which
>>is really tiny and very hard to read the text. i have read  various pages to
>>find out how to change this resolution back to 800 * 600 but haven't been
>>succesfull. Can anyone hep me out in this problem?
>>
>>Dharmesh :)
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Solution to your first problem

First of all get BOOTPART (just about 50Kb) from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm. With BOOTPART, you can add any partition to the WinNT boot menu. You can add Win98 or Linux Partitions (with Lilo) to the menu. It can also repair the WinNT bootloader. Also read the page and associated documentation well.

Then follow the steps below:

1) Boot to Linux using lilo (from hard disk). Create a NEW bootdisk using
'mkbootdisk 2.2.12-20'. The number is the version of the kernel. If you
are have installed RH 6.1 from PCQ CD then it should be 2.2.12-20. Refer to
'man mkbootdisk' for exact (and more) option(s).
2) Make sure that the new bootdisk works.
3) Remove lilo from mbr. Boot to DOS prompt and issue the command 'fdisk /mbr'.
4) Boot to linux using bootdisk and install lilo on the Linux partition (not
in MBR). You can do this easily using 'linuxconf'. Go to X and type 'linuxconf'. (Even though you can use it from text mode, the GUI interface is more comfortable.)
5) Boot to DOS prompt and use BOOTPART to repair the NT bootloader. (I dont 
remember the exact syntax). Reboot and test that NT/Win98 can be booted thru the NT bootloader.
6) Create the (512 byte) bootsector file for linux partition using bootpart.
It will also a make it's entry in the NT's boot.ini. You may edit the file for changing the default OS and the timeout. (First unhide it using the DOS
'attrib -h -s -r boot.ini' command). 
7) Reboot. Now you should be able to boot to all the three OSs with NT bootloader.

Solution to second problem

1) Backup the /etc/X11/XF86Config.
2) Edit it and goto 'Screen Section'. Below this there will be multiple
'Subsections' called 'Display', and under this will be option(s) called
Mode, where the (different) resolution(s) will be displayed. Delete the
resolutions you dont want (eg. "1024x768") from ALL the Display subsections.
3) Save the file and restart the X server.


Read the Linux documentation. It is available in the CD from where you have
installed Linux. There are FAQs and HOWTOs for most of the problems one may face.

Naren



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