[ltp] can't boot dos from lilo

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did you mark the partition active in fdisk?
also if you want it to boot normally (without lilo)
you have to do fdisk /mbr to overwrite the master boot record.

brad
Date sent:      	Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:38:13 GMT
From:           	Michael Selway <mas@ssl.co.uk>
To:             	linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Subject:        	[ltp] can't boot dos from lilo
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> Rebuilding my tp600e following a disc failure, I decided to do
> without an ms-windows partition since I never use it.
> 
> So I booted the redhat6.1 CD-ROM, made three partitions, a big
> linux native, a linux swap, and a fat16.  The fat16 is for
>       - the hibernation file
>       - ps2.exe (and whatever else it needs to run - anyone know?)
>       - only enough ms-dos to support the above
> 
> I finished the rh6.1 installation straightforwardly, I then booted
> from an msdos floppy, and set up a minimal ms-dos partition using
>      sys c:
> This put 4 files on the partition.  I set up lilo to boot from
> linux or dos.
> 
> When I try to boot the dos partition, I get
>      Loading dos
> 
>      Invalid system disk
>      Replace the disk, and then press any key
> 
> Any ideas?  The dos partition (/dev/hda5) is in an "extended
> partition", and it starts very near the end of the disc, at around
> the 6 Gbyte mark.  Is this a >1024 cyls problem?  Is this how such
> a problem would be diagnosed?  Any work arounds?
> 
> regards,
> Michael
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Bradley W. Langhorst
bwlang@genome.wi.mit.edu
Whitehead Institute 
Center for Genome Research
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