On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, vishal gupta wrote:
hi, I had installed disk manager of samsung to support my new 40 GB HDD as my motherboard bios dont support large capacity drives. So a DDO was installed at MBR of my OLD 8 GB HDD
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have you tried puting lilo/grub on somewhere other than mbr, like maybe on the boot sector of the *second* partition ? You'd of course have to set this partition as active from fdisk. I have a similar setup. This is the output of echo p | fdisk /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 192 1542208+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 * 193 384 1542240 83 Linux /dev/hda3 385 576 1542240 83 Linux /dev/hda4 577 1027 3622657+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 577 704 1028128+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda6 705 724 160618+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 725 876 1220908+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 877 1027 1212876 83 Linux
hth,
Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Linux Enthusiast. Mumbai, India. http://www.pavri.net/