I tried runnig fdisk from windows, this is what I got.
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Display Partition Information
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
1 Non-DOS 1153 12%
2 EXT DOS 353 4%
C: 3 A PRI DOS 8252 FAT32 85%
Total disk space is 9758 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes)
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We have someone here teaching a Linux Driver couse so I asked him
about it. He suggested that I use the Boot disk that came with RH 7
and go into Rescue mode. From there I can mount the partition and
look at lilo.conf and maybe run lilo by hand. The problem now is
mount from the rescue disk has some magic switches because from
what I'm told it is different then the normal mount command. Also,
I need to add switches to the lilo command (-r ?) .
Anyone know the exact lines I need to type?
TIA,
Kenny
Bill Freeman wrote:
> Have you tried running lilo by hand (from another virtual
> terminal, just before you let it try to reboot) to see if you get and
> error messages?
>
> Also, try FDISK from both Windows and from the install, not to
> change anything but to see if they agree about the sizes and locations
> of partitions (if fdisk had sucessfully written the boot block, lilo
> should be able to, if not, that's useful information).
>
> I don't see how the BIOS could protect the boot block from
> linux, since linux doesnt use the BIOS to talk to the disk (and thus
> neither does lilo, the linux executable that installs the booter, but
> lilo the booter does, but it doesn't write). Do, however, check the
> boot order BIOS option, usually in "advanced" settings, or some such,
> to see that nothing comes before C: other than perhaps A: or
> CDROM. (I'd be tempted to try a setting where C: is first. I'm
> grasping at straws here, thinking that maybe the BIOS decides to skip
> the boot block and reads windows directly as an optimization, at least
> in some mode.)
>
> Good luck, Bill
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