Re: [Plug] lilo Partition entry not found

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Don't you need to specify a number? As in /dev/hda5?
       -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org


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> From: Son To <son@wharton.upenn.edu>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> Subject: [Plug] lilo Partition entry not found
> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:42:25 -0400 (EDT)
>
> My Sony Viao F250 laptop came preinstalled with win98. I nuked the win98
> partition and installed Linux. I then proceeded to install win98 from
> the recovery CD. This is not a win98 install CD so it did not over-write
> the mbr.  I modified lilo.conf adding
>
> other=/dev/hda5
>  	label=win
> 	table=/dev/hda
>
> running lilo gives the message
> "Partition entry not found"
>
> I think the problem is in /boot/map. The lilo man page says that /boot/map
> contains the name and location of kernel(s) to boot. Since I installed
> linux first, /boot/map contains only the location of the linux kernel. How
> do I add the win98 kernel to /boot/map?
>
> thanks for any info,
> son
>
>
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