Re: Problems With LILO

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 05:23:18PM -0700, Lai Boon Hui wrote:
> i've just installed red hat linux 7.0 together with my
> already present Win98. I want to have a choice of
> booting to linux or win98. I know i'm suppose to be
> able to do this through LILO. I expect to see a
> graphical front end to LILO whenever the pc boots up
> and then i will make my choice but i cannot seem to
> get the graphical front end i keep booting straight to
> Win98 i can only boot to linux with a boot disk. How
> can i get the graphical front end to work?
> 
> Another problem is that i want to have a partition
> plan like this:
> 
> Win95 FAT33 hda1
> /boot       hda5
> <Swap>      hda6
> /           hda7
> /home       hda8
> 
> but somehow disk druid forces me to have a hda2 before
> i can create a hda5

I've had my problems with Disk Druid, but, in this case, it is
probably right.  Normally bootable partitions need to be primary
partitions, not logical partitions (part of an extended partition).
Put /boot in hda2, and things will work.

Cheers,
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