Re: Problems With LILO

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 10:13:10PM -0700, Dennis K Grow wrote:
> 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
> 
> /boot  does not have to be a primary partition. All of mine are hda5 (on
> dual boots)
> You need hda2 before you can have hda5,6,7 & 8. It is the extended
> partition that these logical partitions sit in.
> Make hda1 as big as windows needs and make hda2 the rest of the drive.
> Create hda5 and on, inside the extended partition, hda2.
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------
> Dennis K. Grow

Oops.  You're quite right.  I gotta quit answering email late at
night.

Cheers,
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