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Dual boot problem!



I installed linux on apartition of 7GB using text installation and
fdisk instead of diskdruid because diskdruid limited the size of each
partition to 4GB maximum.

I installed the PC with dual boot: winnt and Linux.  When the system
boot up, it only see Linux at the boot time.  I was surprise that the
system did not see the NT partition.  I added the winnt in
/etc/lilo.conf:

ap=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
	label=linux
	read-only
	root=/dev/hda3

other=/dev/hda1
        label=winnt
        table=/dev/hda


Then boot it again and the system still cannot see the winnt partition.
This is my disk patition table:


Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       319   2562336    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           320       344    200812+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3           345      1245   7237282+  83  Linux


I can see that in my first Linux PC (I used diskdruid) the patition table
has an extended partition the size of the entire Linux file system.
This is my first PC's partition table:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       392   3148708+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           393      1245   6851722+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           393       802   3293293+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           803       835    265041   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7           836      1245   3293293+  83  Linux


You can see on the second one, I used fdisk and there is no extended
partition.  All partitions on the second PC with problem are primary.
Do you have any ideas what is wrong with the setup?  How can I make my
PC see both operating systems without reinstall it?

		Thank you,
		Daisy



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