Mauriat wrote:

> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>
>> I have Mandrake 9.0 and Windows 98 on /dev/hda, and Knoppix on /dev/hdb.
>> This seems to confuse the FAT, so that I can boot into Windows and
>> Mandrake,
>> but not Knoppix without several errors. Would I be better off to have
>> all the boot partitions on one drive, and move say the /home partitions
>> to
>> /dev/hdb? Are there any disadvantages in doing it this way?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Doug.
>
> What does "confuse the FAT" mean? You can have 2 linux and 1 windows on
> the same drive. Why don't you post what problems you see and what errors
> are occurring and fix them one by one? What errors are you seeing in
> Knoppix? What bootloaders are you using? Provide more info and people
> can help better.
>
Sorry. The messages are lengthy, and without a running OS, I can't save
them to disk. As far as I can see, the following lines indicate problems:

Idm_validate_partition-table(): Disk read failed
Unable to read partition table
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 (twice)
Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06

My bootloader is LILO. I don't get as far as launching knoppix.

Doug.
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