SnapafunFrank wrote:
OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet.
Re partitions:]
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126 2937 22587390 85 Linux extended /dev/hda3 2938 4434 12024652+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 4435 4870 3502170 6 FAT16 /dev/hda5 126 250 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda6 251 1496 10008463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1497 1559 506016 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 1560 2805 10008463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2806 2937 1060258+ 83 Linux
and:
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1827 14675346 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb2 1828 1829 16065 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 1830 2491 5317515 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 1830 1841 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 1842 1853 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 1854 2263 3293293+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 2264 2295 257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb9 2296 2491 1574338+ 83 Linux
Now I'm lost with the "non-FAT' statement. As you can see I have FAT on both HDDs so your reply suggested that I needed to configure things? I do recall that when attempting to update to Mandrake 10 that lilo thought that my FAT partitions were windows OS's but I didn't see this when I went ahead with a clean install. I have fought hard with this partition problem for some time and feel that I might be missing something real simple, so forgive me for persevering. Right now everything runs fine in this regard but the next time I go to update or try something different I can see me getting balder.
Your FAT16 on your HDA4 seems to me in the middle of your Linux partitions, not that this should matter but if it is not being detected by your W95 bootpartition to me the only way it seems so is that the partition-table has some extra or missing mark to keep it undetected from Windows environment. (I can understand if this FAT16 partition was written specifically for and under Linux then this would be a security measure).
But trust me that if you would have created this /dev/hda4 FAT16 entry on the table under DOS or Windows, it would have become C: and when your w95 platform boots up from your /dev/hdb1, it gets stuck as soon as it wants to start win.com because it probably isn't even there on this c:\windows, or if it is, it may output "incorrect DOS version" or "himem not loaded" or something similar since your /dev/hdb1 will become d:.
Then there is this matter or partitions being "primary" or "extended" (and) "logical". You can't boot from a logical device, but you can place your OS there if you configure your environment variables in your boot-files where this OS is located.
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