Son To on Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:00:03 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] lilo Partition entry not found


Leroy, You are right. It was a logical partition.  

thanks,
son
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:

> Hi Son,
> 
> Looking at your lilo.conf it looks like a plain dos partition on
> /dev/hda5 which is a logical partition.  
> 
> Lilo User's Guide Page 42
> 
> Partition entry not found
> 
> The partition from which an other operating system should be booted
> isn't listed in the specified partition table.  This either means that
> an incorrect partition table has been specified or that you're trying to
> boot from from a logical partition.
> 
> Son To wrote:
> > 
> > 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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