hi alan,
here are the results of fdisk:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 316 523 1670760 5 Extended
/dev/hda2 * 1 260 2088418+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda3 261 315 441787+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 316 419 835348+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda6 420 483 514048+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda7 484 523 321268+ 83 Linux
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Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 393 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 122 979933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 245 393 1196842+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 123 134 96390 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda4 135 244 883575 6 FAT16
/dev/sda5 245 270 208813+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda6 271 393 987966 6 FAT16
notice there is no asterix in the /sda list, i had a hunch and figured
this referred to an active partition and using pqmagic in win98 set sda1
to active, rebooted linux, ran lilo but i still get instant reboot with
scsi set as first boot drive in cmos,
what if i installed lilo to sda1 instead of sda it might not work-okay ,
but could it mess things up?
bascule
p.s. i have lots of questions about other things in linux, should i
start a new thread, put them here, wait till i get this sorted (it may
never be resolved!); this is the first mailing list i've bothered to
get involved in so i don't know if there is an etiquette to this sort of
thing?
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> bascule....the image of your /etc/lilo.conf is fine. Sure I can
> tell you what the p command is, print the partition table, but
> the m command (help) will tell you the same thing as well as all
> the other available commands. Don't worry about executing fdisk
> because it doesn't change anything till you do a w command
> (write table to disk and exit). So if you want to run the
> program to see something about the partition table then you
> simply exit with a q command (quit without saving changes).
>
> Alan
>
> bascule wrote:
> >
>
