Re: Problem with LILO..again

["I. S. Clavner" <clavner@inet.net>]

Hello Timothy:

I also ran into a raft of problems with partitions when I
tried to do a dual boot NT/Linux system. I found that the
LBA assignments shifted around on me depending on which
system I had booted. The number of heads, sectors,
cylinders, etc varied sometimes and either Linux or NT
couldn't find its markers. It took a number of (very time
consuming) iterative cycles of booting in Linux, then DOS,
then Linux, then DOS, before I found settings which
satisfied both systems. I lost 8 cylinders or so in the
process, and two days out of my life, but hey...

The culprit could be partition magic. Try reviewing your
partition with fdisk and see if you get any error messages.
If you have a problem with your partition boundaries, you
can trust fdisk to tell you all about them. Try the fdisk
program under Linux as well as DOS/NT/Windows.

Unfortunately, if the bad boundaries affect your boot
partitions, I can't imagine what else you could do but
re-install once you have identified the correct boundaries.

Slackware's 3.6 release has a nifty bootable CD-ROM, so life
just got easier.

Ira.

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