Re: Dual Boot Woes

[Tom Pfeifer <tpfeifer@snet.net>]

I don't know how you're booting, but hda2 must be your extended
partition, which doesn't show up in cfdisk's main screen. It does (or
should) if you choose  Print - Table from the cfdisk menu. You'll see a
type 0x05 or type 0x0F listed under ID for the 2nd partition. Linux
fdisk will also show the extended partition.

Tom

Rob Mahurin wrote:

> Here's an idea.  I have winNT on hda1 and linux begins on hda5 and spills
> over to hdb* -- entirely logical partitions, not a bootable primary among
> them.  lilo appears to have installed itself on hda2, which does not show up
> in cfdisk or any other such utility.  Also, cfdisk et al. do not show any
> partitions as being bootable or active or whatever.  Net result:  my system
> boots to lilo but did not interfere with my existing NT installation.
> 
> I don't know why this works and haven't found a decent explanation, but it
> does.  Attached is my lilo.conf.  If anybody knows why my system boots, I
> would appreciate an explanation; at any rate, I hope it helps.
> 
> Rob
>