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by **Bob Apodac** » Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:00:00

I have a 3 Gig hard drive and I'm trying to get LILO to boot 3 different
operating systems. I currently have linux on hda1, win95 on hda3 and
I'm trying to put NT4 on hda4.

Note that each partition is approximately 1 gigabyte. My configuration
works well for linux and win95, but I can't get the last partition to
work. I installed DOS 6 on hda4 to see if I could get LILO to boot it,
but it just sits there after giving me this message "LILO booting dos".
I even tried making hda4 the boot parition (and disabled hda1) but I got
an "invalid boot disk" error.

The disk is in LBA mode.

I'd appreciate any help I can get.

Here is my current lilo.conf:
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boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
linear
ramdisk=0

disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x80
sectors=63
heads=128
cylinders=781
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
other=/dev/hda3
label=win95
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hda4
label=nt4
table=/dev/hda
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by **Neil Ricke** » Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:00:00

>I have a 3 Gig hard drive and I'm trying to get LILO to boot 3 different
>operating systems. I currently have linux on hda1, win95 on hda3 and
>I'm trying to put NT4 on hda4.
>Note that each partition is approximately 1 gigabyte. My configuration
>works well for linux and win95, but I can't get the last partition to
>work. I installed DOS 6 on hda4 to see if I could get LILO to boot it,
>but it just sits there after giving me this message "LILO booting dos".
>I even tried making hda4 the boot parition (and disabled hda1) but I got
>an "invalid boot disk" error.

DOS gets confused if there are two or more primary FAT partitions.

Use 'fdisk' in linux with the 't' subcommand to change the thpe of
'hda3'. If it is currently type 6, then change it to type 16. That
should allow you to boot DOS6. But you then won't be able to boot
win95 until you change it back to type 06.

If your plan is to install NT4 on hda4, you should now be able to go
ahead with that. Make sure you tell the install program to use
NTFS. That way you will avoid the problem of multiple FAT
partitions. When finished, go back into 'fdisk' in linux, mark NT
partition as the active partition (this may already have been done by
the install). And now you can change hda3 back to type 06. After
this you should be able to boot all partitions.

Incidently, it is a good idea to have a linux boot disk available, in
case installing NT messes with your MBR and disables lilo.

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