Hi Raju,
Thanks for the response. In fact I tried installing LILO but inspite of making a /boot
partition
below 1024 cylinder mark it was giving me error and lilo was not working. So I thought
may be
because of Ontrack O/S this might be happening. I had to reinstall Windows and SuSE
6.3 twice due
to the same problem.
Right now I have a well configured machine with the following partitions :
root@rajesh:/home/rajesh > fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 48 heads, 63 sectors, 28610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3024 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1387 2096451 b Win95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(260, 254, 63) should be (260, 47, 63)
/dev/hda2 1387 11135 14739637+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1022, 254, 63) should be (1022, 47, 63)
/dev/hda5 1387 2779 2104483+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2779 4877 3172806 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 4878 8399 5325264 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 8400 8486 131512+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 8487 9739 1894504+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 9740 11135 2110720+ 83 Linux
root@rajesh:/home/rajesh >
I don't want to loose any partition information due to lilo and as a result I have not
created
any boot partition. New version of Lilo works without this 1024 limit. I am waiting
for Red Hat6.2 CD from PCQ. Not yet received my subscription copy.
You can send me you lilo.conf file.
Thanks again.
Regards.
Rajesh
Raju saw fit to inform me that:
>Hey Rajesh,
> Just because U have Ontrack on your MBR should not stop U from
>having fun with LILO. U can always install LILO on your boot-partition and
>make it your active partition (using fdisk - since U have windoze). Add an
>entry for windoze to lilo.conf, run lilo and ensoy...
>
>Also IMHO, this has always been a better option than installing LILO on
>MBR as there are no problems when reinstalling windoze etc - windoze just
>rewrites your MBR and makes itself the active partition, so after
>installing win all I've to do is run fdisk and make the Linux partition as
>the active partition and voila - nothing has changed. No problems with
>booting off floppy etc... LILO continues to handle your win partition even
>if the size etc has changed as long as the device name (/dev/hda1 etc)
>stays the same.
>
>HTH ... Narain.
>
>ps. I have the same configuration on my m/c - ontrack etc. If U need my
>lilo.conf (with entries for both linux and windoze) - mail me offline.
>
>On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
>
>Since my Hard Disk(17GB) is not recognised by bios, I have to use Ontrack
>O/S from Seagate. So the first thing that gets loaded is Ontrack O/S and
>than my HDD is recognised as 17GB. Due to this I am unable to use Lilo and
>now booting linux using Loadlin. Is there any way I can do the stuff you
>have told using Loadlin ?
>
>
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