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booting with bootmagic

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:04 pm
by thomasd1
hi,
so i got winXP and Rh Linux 9
i can boot to xp with bootmagic,
but when i wanna boot linux, it says like, "preparing machine to boot linux"
and is stays like that... wich means it probably wouln't boot to linux

Image

so, for XP i chose the firstpartition (selected) (and the last one is my backuppartition)
for linux i used pri 2 and 3 and none of 'em work ... the keep saying "preparing machine to boot linux"

now when i first installed linux i was using the linux boot thingie, but with that i couldn't boot to winXP ...
so i used my bootmagicdiskette, to start XP again, then tried to boot to linux again wich didn't work, then winXP again and now i'm here writing this post to you all, (yes i tried google 'n stuff)

so if someone knows something ... help is welcome :roll:

owyeah, i also saw something about "unhiding partitions" or something when i used the bootmagicdiskette

and when i use the linux bootdiskette, i push enter and it says, "loading vmlinuz...." and then "could not load ...... please insert disc" ... :?:

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:16 am
by thomasd1
never mind, reinstalled everithing proper ...
everything works

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 9:53 pm
by Pyrite
Well, glad you got it working, cause I don't and havne't used bootmagic in 4 years.