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For your Linux partition to be bootable, it:
a) Must be a PRIMARY partition type.
b) Must have LILO installed on the superblock of the partition.
- Mike
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On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Raider wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, albert e martinez eet stnt wrote:
> > Expecting win98 to overwrite the MBR, I reinstalled Linux after
> > the win98 instalation so that I could put LILO back in the MBR. This is a
> > clumsy way to install two operating systems but I couldn't come up with
> > anything else.
>
> You can fist install Linux. But because windoze _always_ messes
> with the MBR it's better to put LILO on a floppy. Read the man page for
> lilo.conf on how to do that. This way you let the MBR to any m$ OS that
> you might install or reinstall. I use this way because I have something
> like a switch. So if I let the floppy in the drive my computer will boot
> Linux and if I let the floppy out it will boot windoze. It's a lot faster
> than chosing what OS to boot. And you won't have any problem with Linux
> if you'll reinstall windoze.
>
> > After all this, the only way for me to boot Linux is from the
> > installation CD. Win98 named it's partion C. My bios recognizes C as a
> > HDD. I suspect that this is the reason why I can't get Linux to boot off
> > the HDD. The bios or whatever doesn't think hda* is bootable even though
> > I've used fdisk to make it bootable.
>
> If it's a primary partition, even if it's the third one, dos/win
> will see it as C if it's their first partition. You probably put LILO in
> the MBR. And, because you installed windoze after, win rewrote the MBR.
> I'm not sure if making the Linux partition bootable will help in
> any way. For example my Linux native partition isn't set as bootable.
>
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
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