[ale] Lilo problem

Vernard Martin vernard at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Aug 4 00:44:45 EDT 1999


Ok, I need to load Win95 on a partition of my machine and turn my machine into
a dual boot machine again. However, I'm having a bit of trouble. Here's the
situation. I've got   

    Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        9    72261   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2            10      137  1028160   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3           138      306  1357492+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda4           307      523  1743052+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           307      434  1028128+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda6           435      523   714861    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M

Where /dev/hda4 is an extended partition containing hda5 and hda6.
Hda5 is a linux partition and hda6 is the dos partition. I'm using lilo in the
MBR and I've formatted the hda6 partition as FAT16. 

My lilo.conf looks like this:

append="mem=128M"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
        label=2036
        root=/dev/hda2
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-3.img
        read-only
other = /dev/hda5
        table = /dev/hda5
        label = msdos

When I run lilo to install this file, I get 

Added 2036 *
Partition entry not found.

So its not happy with my DOS parition. I have no idea what is wrong. I've RTFM
so I figure I'm just not seeing it. Its been years since I dual booted a linux
box with anything other than multiple linux distributions. 

V
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Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable   Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)
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