Arch Linux

Sly McFly

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Registered: 2004-01-02

Posts: 10

Installed windows, Arch is haywire.

Hey, I've been running my current arch box for about 5 months, everything has been going fine and I've had no trouble with it, until now.

I installed windows on the master hard drive, with arch on the slave, and when I booted up arch using the cd, I couldn't get my internet to start. I modprobe my pci card and it says it doesn't exist even though it worked before and windows is using it fine. Can anyone explain exactly what happened?

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: Installed windows, Arch is haywire.

if you boot into arch using the installation-cd, you are using a older kernel and therefore are to expect trouble

if you are not able to install lilo into the mbr (or don't want to), you can make your own boot-cd or boot-floppy to boot into arch ... the only trouble is: if the kernele gets updated, you need to make a new boot-cd / boot-floppy :-(

i suggest you to make a backup of the MBR of your master drive and then install lilo (or grub) to it (configuring it the way you can boot into both OS's)

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Sly McFly

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Registered: 2004-01-02

Posts: 10

Re: Installed windows, Arch is haywire.

thank you so much, that fixed everything!

bogomipz

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2003-11-23

Posts: 169

Re: Installed windows, Arch is haywire.

Just a comment on the boot-cd/floppy and kernel upgrade issue. You don't actually have to put the a kernel on the removable boot media. It's also possible to have lilo/grub on a floppy/cd and boot the kernel from HDD using that.

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