Re: Hardisk will not boot

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From: Matt Jenkins
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 00:00

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Graham Daveney (graham@daveney.matra.com.au) wrote:

: Here is a copy of my fdisk -l command.
: 
: Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 6232 cylinders
: Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
: 
:    Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
: /dev/hda1           1       1     813  409720+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
: /dev/hda2   *     814     814    1017  102816    6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
: /dev/hda3        1018    1018    1148   66024   82  Linux swap
: /dev/hda4        1024    1149    6232 2562336   83  Linux native
: Partition 4 does not start on cylinder boundary:
:      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 0, 1)

Ok, I assume, then that you have installed LILO on /dev/hda2

If not, then where is it installed?

Most people installed it into the Master Boot Record of their HD. But here
is my recommended course of action:


Reset the Boot Flag to /dev/hda1 - this should allow you to boot into
DOS/Win.

use LOADLIN to get linux up, then, install LILO on, in your case /dev/hda4.

after that, change the boot flag to boot hda4.

My reasoning for doing this, is that if windows or dos has to be
reinstalled, windows95 (in particular) likes to rewrite the boot record.

In using my scheme, LILO is hiding safely on the linux partition which is
invisible to evil Windows. All you have to do then is reset the boot flag.

cya

Matt

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From: mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Matt Jenkins)
Subject: Re: Hardisk will not boot
Date: 1997/09/09
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