Hi S.Sekar,
Do not create any eXtended partition; it make the partition table
unnecessary complex. You better try with
these:
USE "cfdisk" from Linux.
You better install minimum Linux (200mb) on your BIG HD. Then turn-on
your box in Linux Consol. Fire "CFDISK". Make 4 primary partition of 3,
4, 5 gb combination (as you like). Change the pertition type accoring to
you want. Install M$ product first... you can install NT4 and 98/95 or
whatever you want. The NT Boot loader should be in Superblock. If NT4,
use boot floppy of Win98, use fdisk (of DOS) with FAT-16 (not FAT-32 it
is toooo fattyyy to it's own NT..).
Now COOOL..
Install Linux as amny as you have .... New SuSe.. to RedHat...
Debian.... and enjoy the OS... and OS...
I think You know how-to with LILO... so
HURRY-UP
ANd ....
by
Saugata Chakrabarti
S. E. [Linux Env.]
Chennai
...................
ps : [you can play with VMWARE.. as you have the learger spaaaaace.]
waiting for your reply.......
"S.Sekar" wrote:
>
> Dear Linux users,
> I have a 17Gb harddisk. Cylinders >2000.
> Trial 1:
> I took care to load linux below 1023 cylinders in extended
> partion/logical drives. But Dos is now not able to recognise logical
> partitions after 8GB(1023 cylinders) created as fat32 in linux/fdisk.
>
> Trial2:
> Then, I created linux - native in primary partition 2. Then I created
> other logical partions in dos, to access full 17 GB.
> I loaded linux in primary 2 and 4(for swap). Linux was OK.
> When I loaded windows now, Linux does not boot anymore. Even with floppy
> , saying kernel error.
> Partition table now is as follows:
> 1. fat32/4GB
> 2. linux native/ 2.9GB (cylinders 500-900 approx)
> 3. dos-extended (above cylinder 1023)
> 4. linux swap / 70MB/below 1023 cylinder
> --logical 5,6,and 7 for dos.
>
> Can anyone tell me where I should correct.
> Thanks.
>
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