[ale] Lilo problem

[Thompson Freeman]

I think you may be in error now. I think I'm currently booting linux off
hda1 and OpenDOS from hda5 on another machine. I'm sure that DOS isn't on
hda1, the other I may be confused on.

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Ray Prock wrote:

> I *think* a dos partition has to be hda1 in order to be bootable..  I am
> remembering this from a similar experience in 1994, so my info may be out of
> date.
>         --ray
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vernard Martin <vernard at cc.gatech.edu>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 12:44 AM
> Subject: [ale] Lilo problem
> 
> 
> > 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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