I have installed Linux 6.0 along with a Win98 installation in a system, that had Partition Magic 6.0 and Power Quest installed. While I tried to install LILO, it didn't get installed -- is that because, Boot Magic is already installed as the MBR ?
Normally, Boot Magic gives an option of booting into Win or if any other OS is installed. But in this case, I'm still having to use a Linux boot disk for booting into Linux :/
just a suggestion would be if you are using partiton magic boot menu, just disable that boot menu and create it again. and click on the linux partiton and add it to the boot magic menu. you should then have linux probably with your boot magic menu.
just a suggestion would be if you are using partiton magic boot menu, just disable that boot menu and create it again. and click on the linux
partiton
and add it to the boot magic menu. you should then have linux probably
with
your boot magic menu.
Prem -- thanks for your suggestion. Actually, what I found out is, it exceeds, 1024 cylinders, while I tried to run lilo by booting from the disk. -- Any ideas, on getting that fixed ?
Thanks!
i think the pq magic boot menu would still work, as you seem to be having pqmagic 6 and i think just add the linux native partiton to the boot menu and it might help.
If it does not why dont you use loadlin to boot into linux. just create a batch file in dos so that you dont have to type in the command again and again and just excute the batch file when ever you want to connect to linux. "loadlin c:\vmlinuz root =/dev/hdax " where you need to copy both loadlin and vmlinuz to c drive or any other drive and set the parameters in the above command and hdax is the linux native partion.
another option (not tried this one) is to set lilo to use linear addressing in /etc/lilo.conf which might probably get rid of that 1024 limit, but read the lilo docs before trying this out.
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