[olug] Still no luck

[Brian Roberson]

Where are you installing lilo? on the MBR? hopefully on /dev/hda ... can we
all see your lilo.conf please?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Beam" <mescie at cox.net>
To: "OLUG" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:30 PM
Subject: [olug] Still no luck


> think that's where I reinstalled my mandrake linux and made a /boot
> partition of 15 Mb at the begining of the drive and it still don't
> work.I get this message when I run lilo on the command line >Warning:
> /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk
> Added linuxI
> Added windows *
> Added floppy
> When I checked fdisk in windows it just recognized my windows HD but
> not the linux drive.I think that's where my problem lies.I've messed
> with it off    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1             1       700   5622718+  1b  Hidden Win95 FAT32
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2434.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> Then the "p" command>
> /dev/hdb1   *         1         2     16033+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdb2             3      1346  10795680    5  Extended
> /dev/hdb5             3        21    152586   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb6            22        52    248976   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb7            53        83    248976   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb8            84      1330  10016496   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb9          1331      1346    128488+  82  Linux swap
> I have no idea what that extended partition is or how to get rid of
> it.Just for the heck of it I installed System Commander (partition
> magic)
> and it booted both windoze and linux just fine.To say I'm confused is an
> understatement....lol.Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how
> I might fix it?
>
>
>                        Thanks,Gary
>
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