My experience with BM which came with COL2.3/2.4 was that
it has problem reading/creating partitions on HD with size
larger than 8.4G .
This might also apply to your case, but I am just guessing.
Auyeung
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Moffat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: bootable partition
> Thanks, I'll have a look. I have a HP deskjet 840c that
prints the
> apsfilter
> test page but won't yet work for general printing.
(working on it.) And I
> have to boot from boot disk, since bootmagic doesn't see
this partition.
> I'm about to write lilo to the mbr, as soon as I get more
confident.
> (Although, keeping the boot disk in this machine keeps the
teenagers out
> of it. ;-) They are baffled. They like to secretly switch
to Windows and
> back, thinking I'll not notice.)
> I can't seem to figure out why bootmagic doesn't see these
linux
> partitions.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 840 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 271 2048728+ b Win95
FAT32
> /dev/hda2 272 840 4301640 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 272 289 136048+ 82 Linux
swap
> /dev/hda6 290 561 2056288+ 83 Linux
native
> /dev/hda7 562 840 2109208+ 83 Linux
native
>
>
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