On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, goldwyn rodrigues spake thusly:
With Windows 98 installed. the partition table looks different at least in my PC. Because windoze 98 does not allow more than one primary partition. The Linux partitions should have started from hda5 and onwards, unless you create a boot partition which is usually hda2.
This is a problem only if you want to fiddle with your partition table later using windows utilities. I had 4 primary partitions on my HDD happily.
And one more thing, in older systems, such as P2, Lilo requires the start of the boot partition (in your case the root partition) to be within 1024 cylinders. This feature is mother board dependant, raher BIOS dependant.
A clarification. The above thing was due to newer HDD's larger than 8Gb (approx) which had some different way of organising cylinder et.al. It did not depend of the processor. The BIOS was the problem. In many cases an upgraded/patched bios solved the problem.