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"Mal Thomas" <mat@fundi.com.au> wrote:

>Howdy,
>I have a 1.2gb drive partitioned into two primary partitions:
>
>1)  Windows 95    700 mb
>2)  Windows 95+Office 2000  300mb.
>3) Bootmanager (via Partition Magic V3) 2mb
>
>The rest was unformatted free space. 198mb
>
>I installed Redhat 5.0  with no problems, all stages complete ok, no
>installation checks.  The install process created the Linux native partition
>with 160mb and the swap with 32mb. These were created inside the 198mb
>freespace on the drive. So far so good.
>
>When asked by the install process whether to install LILO in the MBR or in
>the BootManager partition I replied Bootmanager - thinking that I could get
>at the Linux partition thru it.

I think you should have installed LILO in the Linux root partition, not the
Bootmanager partition.

>
>After the install completed I rebooted into DOS on the Win95 partition so
>that I could add the Linux partition to the Bootmanager menu using Partition
>Magic V3.

If indeed you installed LILO into the Boot manager partition, then I'm
surprised the Boot manager still works. Are you sure Partition Magic's Boot
Manager create it's own (small) partition ? 

The Boot manager's I'm familiar with use the reserved sectors between the
MBR and the first partition, although your descriptions seem to confirm
Bootmanager does create a partition for itself.

>
>What has happened is that the Linux Native and Swap partitions have been
>created in what used to be the freespace on the HD but they are flagged as
>being part of a DOS extended partition.  PartitionMagic has flagged this
>partition as 'bootable'.

Yes, that's a confusing attribution, based in history. Don't worry. A DOS
extended partition is an extended partition.

>
>Although I can add this Linux partition to the Bootmanager menu the Linux
>entry does not show up on the Bootmanager menu when the machine is rebooted.

Your sure you saved the changes, right ?

>Also if I make the Linux partition the active partition and reboot a message
>is displayed saying 'Can't locate Linux system'.

I beleive that's an indicator that the boot manager can't find the LILO
boot record (signature) in first sector of the Linux root partition.

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