Hey guys!

Yesterday I got 3 Redhat 7.1 cds free with a book I bought on it.
Now I installed it (the thing took an hour to install) and during installation it made a boot floppy for me. Later after installation finished I put the boot disk in and rebooted my computer. Its said something like this:

Redhat Linux 7.1: Booting failed...

Then I had to press a key and it started Windows if I removed the floppy. :(

Anyway one have any idea?

Have you tried rebooting without the boot disk? :cool:

Well duh!:eek:

When I did that it just normally booted into Windows 98.

Hold up....

You did partition your hard drive right?

C: for win

D: for linux

?

Well I did partition. My main drive was already partitioned into C and D. But during installation I had to partition again. And for some reason after installation I can't see the partiution through windows. :(

Did you install LILO or GRUB?

Well, I didn't get an option to how I want to boot Linux. So it just directly asked for a clean disk to make a boot disk@!

Hi!
You'd have to install lilo to boot linux and even windows.
Here's how a simple lilo conf file looks like

boot="/dev/hda3"
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout="50"
message=/boot/message
lba32
default=linux

image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2"
label="linux"
read-only
root="/dev/hda3"
other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=dos

In this case you have 3 partition. 1- win98, 2 swap and 3 linux.
Make the partition active.
Install run lilo and reboot the box.
The lilo prompt would appear.

I hope this helps.

Have a great day :)

Regards
Amar