I had a similar problem last weekend. Windows was on my
primary-master, linux on my primary-slave. I installed a second
version of Linux 7.0 on my master and after that Windows wouldn't
boot and I couldn't boot from a DOS floppy, even though Linux
recognized my Windows files and could read and write them.
The problem turned out to be that I had overlapping partitions.
"sfdisk -V /dev/hda" can verify if your partitions are as they should
be. In my case, deleting the Linux partions on the master using fdisk
in Linux fixed the problem. I didn't really need the second Linux
installation since I had Linux on my slave disk, so I could take a
rather radical course. Afterwards, I used DOS fdisk to recover the
partition.
So try "sfdisk -V /dev/hda", see if your partition table is correct.
You could probably resize one of the overlapping partitions with
fdisk, but I'm not sure that wouldn't cause data loss. Partition
magic would be useful for a situation like this if you have it.
Good luck,
John Hendrickx
--- Ercan Solak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi bascule,
>
> I tried removing the line you mentioned in lilo.conf and when I run
> lilo
> it complained about having a large disk and such stuff and adviced
> I put
> the line back so I did. Anyway thanks for answering.
>
> regards.
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, bascule wrote:
>
> >hi, i'm no expert but i noticed in your lilo.conf the line
> 'lba32'if
> >this refers to what i think it does you might try leaving this
> out, i
> >think it refers to some sort of hard drive optimisation and
> although it
> >may only affect the booting of linux and have nothing to do with
> windows
> >i can't see the harm in trying, if i'm talking rubbish i'm sure
> some
> >soul will jump in and educate us both!
> >
> >bascule
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> just installed LM-7.1 in automatic installation mode,
> installation went smoothly (as implied by the term "automatic") but
> after I reboot I noticed that I had some problems ranging from
> desperate to minor. I have been reading previous archives for two
> days and after trying suggested methods and failing I decided to
> post this one. Thanks for your patience and answers.
> >>
> >> Before I installed LM-7.1 I had a system running Win98-SE and a
> harddisk (20 GB) with 1 primary (5 GB) partition and 3 logical
> drives in the extended partition (each about 5 GB). During the
> installation I removed the partition corresponding to the last
> logical drive and installed linux and swap partitions instead. Now
> after installation I have the following problems.
> >>
> >> 1. After I reboot the machine LILO asks which OS to boot, when I
> choose windows it just hangs while the HDD redlight remains on.
> Linux boots normal, though. Somebody suggested using DOS' fdisk
> /mbr but I can not boot the machine from startup floppy either.
> From linux I can access windows partitions and seems there is no
> data loss in them. In short, LM (or LILO) does not permit me in
> anyway to boot to win98. In desperation, I did a reinstall of LM
> but it did not work. This one is my most urgent problem. How can I
> bring my WIN98 back?
> >>
> >> I attached my lilo.conf file and the output from fdisk -l > zzz
> >>
> >> 2. Less urgent; I have a monitor LG 795FT Plus, video card
> Creative VANTA 16 MB, and sound card Creative Vibra 128. How can I
> get linux to detect those devices? Currently I can use 1280x1024
> 16bpp resolution but I know it is able to give true color even in
> higher resolutions. It detects sound card as es1371, videocard as
> RIVA TNT2 and monitor as SVGA high-frequency. How can I get linux
> to correctly recognize my hardware configuration?
> >>
> >> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Ercan Solak
> >>
> >>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Name: lilo.conf
> >> lilo.conf Type: unspecified type
> (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM)
> >> Encoding: BASE64
> >> Description: lilo.conf
> >>
> >> Name: zzz
> >> zzz Type: unspecified type (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM)
> >> Encoding: BASE64
> >> Description: zzz
> >
> >
>
> Ercan Solak
> -----------
> Electrical Eng. Dept., Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara, Turkey.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~ercan
> phone : +90-312-290 2618
>
>
>
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