howdy all.....:-) Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot system with LILO as boot manager. cfdisk shows: /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) /dev/hda5 Logical Linux /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5? yes Install a master boot record on /dev/hada yes Make /dev/hda5 the active partition? yes then LILO will generate the following error message: 5: not a valid partition number (1-4) If I answer yes to the first two questions but no for the third the system can only boot with Win95........to boot linux I must use my emergency disk. Any suggestions on why this is happening? Question: Should the partitions have been installed as hda1, hda2 and hda3 or is the hda1, hda5 and hda6 sequence normal? Question: If the sequence is not normal, this may explain why LILO is barfing; is there anyway to change the Name(s) hda5 and hda6 to hda2 and hda3 without having to run fdisk all over again and therefore having to do a complete re-install of the linux partitions and OS? your comments on this problem would be much appreciated (and that's putting it mildly at this particular point in time after 2 days of trying to figure this problem out!! <grin>).......thanks. :-)
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