I appreciate your responses.  I can change the partitions on the purely Linux
side, just not the Win98 partitions.  I'll work on that and see what happens.

Thanks,

mw

ABrady wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:58:40 -0600
> Mike Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> 
> > I know, but it's just such a royal pain in the a**!
> >
> > I've looked at my RH 7.2 server---which is working just fine---and the
> > partition there (created by DiskDruid) in not on partition boundaries
> > either.  GRUB works just fine and so did LILO whilst using RH 7.1 and
> > earlier.
> >
> > mw
> 
> Fine. I was relating my own experience on 2 hard drives, and, as always,
> YMMV. Both drives refused to boot, period, lilo or grub, until I
> manually removed the bad boundary markings. I tried manually changing
> sizes, I tried manually fdisking various ways, I tried LBA and Linear.
> Nothing worked until every ding-danged + was removed. Now both boot
> beautifully.
> 
> > ABrady wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:28:09 -0600
> > > Mike Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> > >
> > > Well, if you can't back it up to redo it, and you can't take it down
> > > to redo it either, you're stuck with bootdisks. That isn't the end
> > > of the world. As I said, I did it for a year or more. Just make sure
> > > you have 2 or more KNOWN GOOD disks available ready to boot so you
> > > can fall back on a second one if one fails.
> > >
> >
> >
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