On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 1:02 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: Hi, Joe
> I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but might this problem be due to > how your drives are partitioned as in primary vs extended partitions? > Could it be that if your OS, doesn't matter which is actually in an > extended partition, that LILO need to mount the primary partition > containing it to boot? No, windows is on hde1, a primary, and Mandrake 9 is on hdf1, also a primary. > I'm not a LILO guru, so I could be totally wrong. > I do know that I've mounted extended partitions (usually when installing > Linux in a dual boot environment) and have come up with some pretty strange > mappings. One other thought. This isn't a large harddrive that has had a > bootmanager installed to override the bios settings on the computer is it? No - the drives are 19GB and 16GB respectively - no need for anything exotic. > I know that a lot of drives over 32GB have special boot loaders (regardless > of the OS) to handle booting. Linux doesn't actually need it (Windows > does, sometimes), but does LILO respect it if it is there? > The only thing odd about the setup is this having 2 ATA100 connectors and 2 ATA66 connectors. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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