[ale] Lilo problem

Clay Lawrence servo at bellsouth.net
Wed Aug 4 06:15:34 EDT 1999


Try changing other to...

other = /dev/hda6
	table = /dev/hda
	label = windoze

HTH
Clay

Vernard Martin wrote:
> 
> Ok, I need to load Win95 on a partition of my machine and turn my machine into
> a dual boot machine again. However, I'm having a bit of trouble. Here's the
> situation. I've got
> 
>     Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1        9    72261   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda2            10      137  1028160   83  Linux native
> /dev/hda3           138      306  1357492+  83  Linux native
> /dev/hda4           307      523  1743052+   5  Extended
> /dev/hda5           307      434  1028128+  83  Linux native
> /dev/hda6           435      523   714861    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
> 
> Where /dev/hda4 is an extended partition containing hda5 and hda6.
> Hda5 is a linux partition and hda6 is the dos partition. I'm using lilo in the
> MBR and I've formatted the hda6 partition as FAT16.
> 
> My lilo.conf looks like this:
> 
> append="mem=128M"
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
>         label=2036
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-3.img
>         read-only
> other = /dev/hda5
>         table = /dev/hda5
>         label = msdos
> 
> When I run lilo to install this file, I get
> 
> Added 2036 *
> Partition entry not found.
> 
> So its not happy with my DOS parition. I have no idea what is wrong. I've RTFM
> so I figure I'm just not seeing it. Its been years since I dual booted a linux
> box with anything other than multiple linux distributions.
> 
> V
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable   Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)
> Lightness has a call that's hard to hear  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/






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