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I have been attempting to configure Lilo to boot Linux or DOS.
The usual sort of arrangement. By setting the active boot flags with
fdisk (dos or linux), I can arrange for DOS or Lilo to boot.
Using a stanza like

   other = /dev/hda2
     table = /dev/hda
     label = hda2-lilo

Lilo will boot itself. Not useful, but it shows Lilo can pickup the
boot sector of a partition. After some experimenting and installing
Lilo on any spare partition, I can boot lilo from another copy of
itself in every way I have tried. But I can only boot DOS using a DOS
MBR and active partition.

  Can anyone explain? Thanks,

      John

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Further details:

My various partitions are:

     /dev/hda       with a DOS fdisk /MBR   or with a lilo
     /dev/hda1      Dos partition 100M
     /dev/hda2      Linux - with lilo in boot sector
     /dev/hda3      swap
     /dev/hda4      Linux - with lilo in boot sector
also
     /dev/fd0       Lilo

The BIOS reports the disk as:
   LBA Mode 4, 1707MB

The lilos have been installed with variants of this lilo.conf file:

   boot = /dev/hda                   <- varies
   compact
   vga = normal    # force sane state
   root = current  # use "current" root
   message = /etc/lilo.mess.hda      <- varies
   map = /boot/map.hda               <- varies
   prompt
   image = /vmlinuz
     label = linux
   other = /dev/hda
     label = hda
   other = /dev/hda1
     table = /dev/hda
     label = hda1-dos
   other = /dev/hda2
     table = /dev/hda
     label = hda2-lilo
   other = /dev/hda4
     table = /dev/hda
     label = hda4-lilo
   other = /dev/fd0
     label = floppy

linux fdisk says:
prompt:> /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 827 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1            1        1       51   102784+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2   *       52       52      255   411264   83  Linux native
/dev/hda3          256      256      306   102816   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4          307      307      827  1050336   83  Linux native
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

I have both hda1 (Win 98 FAT 32) and hda5 (Linux /boot) marked as
bootable and I can boot either Win98 or Linux from the hard drive with
lilo.  (All my Linux partitions are logical partitions within hda2 which is
an extended partition).