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Biggles Cheung (biggles@werple.mira.net.au) wrote:
: I've just installed Slackware Pro and configure LILO to have DOS boot as 
: default and Linux with ALT, CTRL, or SHIFT (I thought) pressed on startup 
: and I chose to have LILO installed into MBR. But I failed, everytime DOS 
: is chosen as the OS to boot.

: Linux can be boot from floppy without problem.
 
it usually can be booted from a floppy..

: I have 1 GIG hd with /dev/hda1 for primary partition of DOS (C:\>) 
: /dev/hda2 for extended partition of DOS  ( hda4 for D:\> & hda5 for E:\> ).

why 3 partitions for dos?

dos is only WORTH 1 partition... and a small one at that....

: /dev/hda3 is Linux native starting from cylinder 1018 to cylinder 1424, 
: so I presume there is nothing wrong with boundary problem (>1024). 

: BTW, Linux fdisk reports different physical and logical ending of /dev/hda3
:  phys (1023, 15, 63) logical (1423,15,63)

: and more reports of differences if I have more Linux partitions after 
: /dev/hda3, does this matter? or I can simple ignore it.

: For your reference, DOS fdisk reports as follow

: Disk 1 504 Megs 100% usage	C: 330 Mb
: 				D: 120 Mb
: 				E:  50 Mb
: 			
: while non-dos partition is using the rest of my 1 Gig HD.



how about you use loadlin? it is my personal choice, and it also loads a
damn side faster than floppy boot, and for some reason lilo on my box
:)
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