Hi Biju, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform me that: >>On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:45:47PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: >>> >>> If I put lilo in boot sector of /dev/hda2, after rebooting lilo does not come. >> >>Do you mean that you boot directly to Windows? If so, are you sure you set the >bootable flag of /dev/hda2 ? Check it again -- try cfdisk -- it's a lot less cryptic >than fdisk. Using linux fdisk I set the bootable flag of hda2 (my extended partition). But after doing this when I booted the machine it refused to boot giving the error that invalid partition table. I had to boot using floppy and run fdisk from floppy and set active partition as c:, then automatically the bootable flag set on extended partition vanished, since dos/windows fdisk does not allow to set bootable flag to more than one partition. After doing the above stuff when I rebooted, everything became normal. Then I made /dev/hda7 ( My SuSE root partition ) as bootable using linux fdisk and then putting lilo on MBR, LILO started coming but my windows partition was not booting as explained by me in my earlier mail. >>There is always Loadlin, or Grub (which I know nothing about). Hmmm... Query for the >Gurus: since I use only one Linux (with only a single kernel) on my machinecan I live >without a loader -- a la M$ Duh? For the sake of brother and sister, windus partition is required here man. Right now using loadlin, just wanted to know whether lilo installation is possible in my kind of case( This is new lilo which supports > 1024cyliner limit ). Thanks for all the help everybody. Regards -- Rajesh(ALIAS Shriram) Fowkar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How I Configured my SiS6215 Card ?Visit:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com/linux.html Web Site : http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com/ Email :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Address : KURTARKAR NAGARI, BLDG-C, FLAT NO. T4, THIRD FLOOR, SHANTINAGAR, PONDA - GOA. PHONE : (0832)315932 "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." -Charles F. Kettering --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
