Keith Snape wrote:
>
> Recently, I've been playing with a friends system,
> trying to get a stable companionship (hypocritical I
> know!) of Linux and Win95 in seperate partitions on
> the same drive. Each, and every time I attempt this,
> windows becomes selfish, and realizes its not alone.
> I dont know how or why it happens, but it starts to be
> "Unable to find sector x", where x is most often
> 0,1,or another basic sector of the drive. I have gone
> through the headaches of making sure both the / for
> linux, and basic Win95 are under the 1024
> cylinder?sector?whatever? limit, and both boot fine
> from Lilo.
I dual boot with lilo with 98,( for games!! ha ha ), and have never had
something like this happen. Here are my GUESSES.
1) bad disk
2) you have lilo installed in the mbr and windows doesn't like it.
if this is the case try a set up like mine:
/dev/hda1 Win98 C: (Primary Partition)
/dev/hda2 Linux / (Primary Partition)
doesn't matter if rest of partitions are in extended or not....
install lilo in the boot record of the root partition not the mbr
to get rid of lilo out of the mbr you can run fdisk /mbr from a
win95 boot disk.
3) you used fdisk from dos to set up your win partition and fdisk from
linux to setup your linux partitions, and they saw your disk geometry
differently. to eliminate this i use partition magic to setup all
my partitions prior to installing either system.
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