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Re: [cal1@praxis.net: Newbie Alert]



>> I hope I have the right area, my problem is thta I cannot seem to get Lilo
>> to work with Win95 and Debian. Here's my setup;
>> 	3.2 gig Quantum with 2-1.6 gig partions (one fow Win95 and one for games) 
>> 	these take up drive letters C,D
>> 	1.6 gig Quantum which I use fully for Linux-Debian which is drive E
>> 
>> Now when I installed Debian and asked it to make my drive E drive bootable
>> (hdb1) it says it cannot boot from a secondary hard drive (or something to
>> that effect) and that I would need to use a boot floopy. Is there a way to
>> configure it so I can use Lilo as my boot manager and boot into either Win
>> 95 or Debian (or do you all prefer just Linux). I tried it myself and wound
>> up messing up my MBR on my Drive C:, I was able to boot into Debian fine
>> but Win95 was gone (the drive was invalid). I tried the Fdisk /MBR switches
>> from a dos disk but no luck, luckily I had a Ghost image on my system (god
>> I love Ghost). 

 Hi!

 At point of having Lilo installed and booting to Debian you could have added 
 95 to the Lilo configuration (/etc/lilo.conf). Man lilo.conf for more and check 
 out /usr/doc/lilo, there are some examples how to do this. 

 	--j



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