bascule....the active partition flag tells dos/windows what
dos/windows partition to boot. There can be only one active
partition per drive and it needs to have a bootable dos/windows
operating system on it. Making a linux native partition active
is incorrect.
Why, if you're using win98, do you have all those fa16
partitions? What is hda7 for and why is it in a dos/windows
extended partition along with 2 fat16 partitions?
Can I see your /etc/fstab file?
I still think you need to try booting from the ide drive, either
with BootMagic as I previously suggested, or with lilo.
Possibly we could make a /boot partition on hda and store the
linux kernal there, I'll bet that would fix it. :-)
Alan
bascule wrote:
>
> hi alan,
>
> here are the results of fdisk:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders
>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>
> /dev/hda1 316 523 1670760 5 Extended
>
> /dev/hda2 * 1 260 2088418+ 6 FAT16
>
> /dev/hda3 261 315 441787+ 83 Linux
>
> /dev/hda5 316 419 835348+ 6 FAT16
>
> /dev/hda6 420 483 514048+ 6 FAT16
>
> /dev/hda7 484 523 321268+ 83 Linux
>
>
>
> ........................
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 393 cylinders
>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>
> /dev/sda1 1 122 979933+ 83 Linux
>
> /dev/sda2 245 393 1196842+ 5 Extended
>
> /dev/sda3 123 134 96390 82 Linux swap
>
> /dev/sda4 135 244 883575 6 FAT16
>
> /dev/sda5 245 270 208813+ 6 FAT16
>
> /dev/sda6 271 393 987966 6 FAT16
>
> notice there is no asterix in the /sda list, i had a hunch and figured
> this referred to an active partition and using pqmagic in win98 set sda1
> to active, rebooted linux, ran lilo but i still get instant reboot with
> scsi set as first boot drive in cmos,
> what if i installed lilo to sda1 instead of sda it might not work-okay ,
> but could it mess things up?
>
> bascule
>
> p.s. i have lots of questions about other things in linux, should i
> start a new thread, put them here, wait till i get this sorted (it may
> never be resolved!); this is the first mailing list i've bothered to
> get involved in so i don't know if there is an etiquette to this sort of
> thing?
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > bascule....the image of your /etc/lilo.conf is fine. Sure I can
> > tell you what the p command is, print the partition table, but
> > the m command (help) will tell you the same thing as well as all
> > the other available commands. Don't worry about executing fdisk
> > because it doesn't change anything till you do a w command
> > (write table to disk and exit). So if you want to run the
> > program to see something about the partition table then you
> > simply exit with a q command (quit without saving changes).
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > bascule wrote:
> > >
> >
