Re: LILO problems

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> Sam Varghese wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0400, JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to configure LILO to allow me to boot from my FAT 
> > > partition (Windows 98) and my Linux partition, but for some reason 
> > > the only thing it'll boot from is Linux. If I try to run a boot 
> > > loader from DOS to configure it, the only partition it'll find is the 
> > > Windows one.
> >
> > Debian on /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3; Win98 on dev/hda1
> >
> > /etc/lilo.conf reads:
> >
> > prompt
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > compact
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > delay=50
> > map=/boot/map
> > vga=normal
> > image=/vmlinuz
> > label=l
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/hda3
> > other=/dev/hda1
> > label=w
> > table=/dev/hda
> >
> >
> > Sam
<snip>


Something else I thought of; did you create the Win98 partition with the 
DOS/Windows version of fdisk, and the Linux partitions with a Linux tool 
(cfdisk, fdisk, etc)? If you didn't use native tools for each partition 
type, that may be the source of your problems.


Kent