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I installed Redhat 5.2, but lilo complained that "Partition entry not
found." when it tried to mount my windows partition in the bootloader.
However, my windows starts up fine.  I've tried fdisk /mbr, but it didn't
make any difference.  So every time, I have to use a boot disk to boot to
Linux.  Can anyone help?

Tao

    You need to ensure the your lilo configuration file, found in
/etc/lilo.conf, is configured properly; you can learn all about the lilo.conf
options by running 'man lilo.conf' from the command prompt.  After this you
need to run 'lilo' to install the current boot sector into place on your
master boot record.  If you need any further help with the configuration
contact me via private e-mail and I will gladly help you.

** Matthew

Hi,

This message appears if you try to include a _logical_ partition
to be booted by means of the chain loader /boot/chain.b
into your LILO setup.

LILO cannot do this (the chain loader is not smart enough to find
logical partitions): so if your windows partition is indeed a logical
one, better use loadlin to boot Linux.

From the Linux+Win95 Mini-Howto (which says "linload" instead of
"loadlin" -- I don't know why):

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  _5.1.3 Linload, What's That?_

   Linload is a DOS execuatble which loads a kernel image from a DOS HD
   (or floppy) and then boots the rest of the Linux Operating System from
   an appropriate root partition. If you're really a good hacker, you can
   do a floppyless Linux install this way, but today we are going to do
   more traditional uses. When booting into Windows 95 hit the F8 key
   (when:

Starting Windows 95...

   is displayed) and select "Safe mode, command prompt only." Go to your
   directory where you put your kernel and run

C:\LINUX> linload.exe zimage root=/dev/hda2 ro"

   from there. If you are any good with MS-DOS setups, you can code
   multiple AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, so that you have a menu
   setup and can choose which OS to boot.

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Quote:>Tao

       Best wishes for success,
                                       Klaus.
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