Hi Ajay,
What I meant was LILO is in MBR, but my linux was on an extended partition ( 6.4 GB
HDD ).
Now the problem is in MBR there is Ontrack OS(This is essential for detecting 17GB HDD
- since
my bios does not support more than 8.4 GB HDD. )
When I run /sbin/lilo it shows :
Added Linux
Added Win*
But when I reboot the same Ontrack OS is started and LILO prompt is nowhere. So again
it is the menu from config.sys and than linux option (using loadlin).
My partition table is as follows :
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root@rajesh:/home/rajesh > fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 25698 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1040 2096451 b Win95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(260, 254, 63) should be (260, 63, 63)
/dev/hda2 1040 8352 14739637+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1022, 254, 63) should be (1022, 63, 63)
/dev/hda5 1040 2084 2104483+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2084 3658 3172806 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 3658 6300 5325264 83 Linux (SuSE 6.3)
/dev/hda8 6300 6365 131512+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 6365 7305 1894504+ 83 Linux (Oracle 8i)
/dev/hda10 7305 8352 2110720+ 83 Linux (Red Hat 6.2)
root@rajesh:/home/rajesh >
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Regards
Rajesh
Dwivedi Ajay kumar saw fit to inform me that:
>On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
>
>> Hi Buddy,
>> >Lots of stuff there in u'r mail. Like U said, there is *NO* primary
>> >partition in u'r disk for linux - in which case *AFAIK* U will not be able
>> >to use LILO to boot to linux. This is the reason why most of us prefer to
>>
>> Then How I was able to use Lilo earlier on my old HDD (6.4MB) inspite of my
>> linux being on Extended Partition ? :-) There was no primary partition for linux.
>
> Are you sure?? what were the other OS?? windows maybe.....
>well (a wild guess) maybe the lilo be on the mbr. and windows booting from
>it. But I second the argument that lilo can't be installed and bootable on
>an extended partition.
>
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Rajesh(ALIAS Shriram) Fowkar
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