Re: Booting Debian from hd w/ boot manager?
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Kenneth Valentine wrote:
>
> Hi...recently installed a commercial package called Partition Magic which
> contains IBM's Boot Manager, and currently installing Debian. I
> can't seem to get the boot manager to recoginze the linux partition as
> bootable. Some particulars: Micronics motherboard w/60mz pentium, Conner
> Peripherals CFS541A hd, DOS/WIN3.11 on one partition, Debian on a logical
> partition. Debian boots fine from a floppy, and the boot manager seems to
> work ok, but it returns message "selected partition not formatted" when I
> choose to boot the linux partition. I have gone through installation
> several times, changing what I do to try to fix it (make linux bootable
> from hd, or only from floppy, etc). Any suggestions?
That sounds strange. What version of Partition Magic are you using?
Have you installed LILO on the boot sector of the partition containing
Linux?
Bob
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