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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Mike Carter <mike@txc.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:27:41 +1030 (CST)

Re: Big disk drive + small PC + linux

Mike Carter wrote:

 > > In the short term, you need to make sure that the disk you're booting 
 > > from
 > > features a boot partition which falls entirely within the first 1024
 > > cylinders.
 > >   - mark
 > 
 > After reading your stuff Mark why can I not get lilo to boot my win95 
 > disk.
 > I have partitioned my dev/hda to 800meg /  usr/3.? gig and swap to 96 
 > meg.  Linux boots wonderfully but I cannot get my win95 disk /dev/hdb 
 > to boot from Lilo.  It is in my lilo.conf but when I try to boot it hangs.

No idea.  Want to send your lilo.conf to the mailing list and let us
have a look at it?

[ btw, does fdisk think your win95 partition is bootable? ]

    - mark

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