lilo failed--HELP

[Mark R. Myers]

I could be wrong, but I don't think you can move /boot to hda1 if it is on
another partition.
Usually Windows takes hda1 for its partition, and lilo should install its
boot loader at the beginning of that partition to give you the options of
booting either into Windows or Linux. The /boot partition can be anywhere, I
just usually keep it as an ext2 filesystem, keep it on a primary partition,
and make it about 23 MB in size.
One thing you might check with fdisk in Linux. Is your boot partition set as
the active partition? If not, problems can result.
Mark


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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Michael
J. Schweppe
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:38 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: lilo failed--HELP


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:06:59 -0700, "Mark R. Myers" <mark@pamark.org>
wrote:

>Just to be safe, I still create a /boot partition on hda1 that is about 23
>MB for the boot partition.
>I've never experienced any problems doing this.

I just completed a fresh install with the same results <grrr>.  I had
to fdisk /mbr to get to Windows.

Can I move /boot to hda1 without doing a reinstall again?

Mike
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