You can add the Mandrake version of lilo to a Redhat system. Download the
src.rpm from a mandrake mirror (might as well get the cooker version). Then
make the rpm using rpm --rebuild blah.src.rpm. Then istall it. You can be
sure this will work as mandrake may have things setup differently from
redhat. The best way of doing it is to go and get the source from the lilo
website and compile and install this.
you can download it from here
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/
Mark Hillary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rusty Carruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [expert] windows discovered me
> "Aric S. Bergren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > windows on my system has access to c,d,and,e drives normally, and all of
the
> > rest of my hard drive space is for linux, so i know it must be a linux
> > formated area...sectorwise, it is located between win c and the normal
win d
> > on the drive....i had to do that because of the 1024th sector thing (its
a
> > red hat 7 system and still has this limitation)...it worked fine for a
> > while, and then during the time when i was attempting to mount windows
> > drives in linux, it was detected, given a new drive letter d, and the
old d
> > and e were moved to where they are now (e and f)...also, i was only able
to
>
> strange that it should happen during mounting dos in linux.
>
> But, what does fdisk -l /dev/hda say? Are the partition types correct for
> what's actually in the partitions?
>
> Note that you can (carefully ;-) change partition types on a live
partition without
> damaging the data in them. (I've used this to keep drive letters the
same
> between a windows 98 boot and a dos 6.2 boot - but thats a different
story - the
> point being that you can change the system type of a partition without
affecting
> whats in it - just be sure you only change its type code!)
>
> > mount the old windows c and e drives for some reason...mounting d would
not
> > work, and even though according to fdisk, win d should have been hda6,
if i
> > mount that section with an auto format option, it works but is not the
right
> > partition (i see the kernal in there, etc)....i wonder if this has
anything
>
> again, this is weird. What happens if you specify the filesystem type on
> your mount? (And, btw, where are you tryin to mount these things?)
>
> > to do with it.....if i was able to put linux after windows on the drive
and
> > just put the /boot partition before 1023 i wonder if all of the drives
would
> > be mountable and maybe windows wouldn't see linux...otherwise, is there
a
>
> I doubt this would help...
>
> > way to add mandrake 7.2's version of lilo (which does not need to have
the
> > /boot dir before 1024) to a red hat system
>
> Sorry, I cannot help you there. Anyone else?
>
> > (which seems to be more stable
> > than mandrake on this particular system..........
>
> I wonder if the 'hard disk optimizations' problems others have mentioned
> here on the list may have something to do with your evaluation that
> M7.2 is less stable than M7.1? What makes you say its less stable?
>
> > am i making any sense at all
>
> I *think* I understood you - but thats no guarantee! ;-)
>
> > or should i relax for a while and just have many beers?
>
> Relax, have a few, but don't drive! ;-)
>
> Just kidding. I'm curious to see the output of your fdisk -l and what's
in
> your /etc/fstab (sorry, forgot to mention that before ;-)
>
> rc
>
>
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