Re: Dual boot problem!
Hi Daisy
Did you run /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf? Dean
Daisy Nguyen Davis wrote:
> 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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