1st thanks to everyone who read and answered. Cameron, to answer your question I created the primary partions with linux fdisk and tagged them as fat16. I did format them and sys them with a dos disk.
But you are correct win9x was having many problems with the multiple partitions. I had thought that LILO would fool it and 9x would think that it was on it's own single partition but it did not work that way. Live and learn.. it's only time. LOL I have read that system commander will do something like I need and I'm going to give that a try now or I'm going to try your suggestion with small dos primary part. Thanks again!! David Hussey ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:20 AM Subject: RE: LILO - Boot other os's > > > I have a linux box in our programmers area. This is really > > going to > > > be a test machine for them to test programms on diferent window's > > > os's. It is setup with 4 primary partions. Linux 7.3 > > (2.4.18) is on the first /dev/hda1 > > > and I created 3 fat16 dos partions on /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, > > /dev/hda4. I > > > would like with LILO to choose which partion will boot. Below is my > > > lilo.conf file. > > This info might be out of date, but... > As far as I know, dos-based windows (i.e. Win-9x) cannot support multiple > primary DOS partitions. How did you manage to create them? > LILO might be working, but perhaps the windows loader is resorting to what > it > thinks is C:. How did you install them all on separate partitions? > > If it's win9x you are talking about, then forget it, they are too stupid to > cope with unusual partitioning schemes. (I'm just guessing about ME, > but, based on other experience...). From what I have read in the past, > DOS, i.e. Win 9x, scans the discs in the following order: > the primary dos partition on each non-removable drive > hda, hdb, hdc, hdd, then all logicals on hda then all logicals on hdb, etc > and assigns C:, D:, etc as it finds them. You might want to check the > MS web site, but I am sure there is no way to assign other primaries. > You might get away with multiple logical partitions, for multiple win9x > systems, but make sure you reinstall each time. Partition magic might > perhaps be able > to cope with the duplication (never done it myself). > > NT/2k and presumably xp are smarter, but they have to be NTFS partitions to > have multiple primaries. > I'd recommend you get them working in MS multi-boot config first. > I used to boot Linux, NT4, win98 and dos, as follows. > Set up a small C: dos primary just > to hold lilo, and windows boot loaders, then install win9x on a logical > partition, then NT/2k and it will provide multiboot configuration. > Then reinstall lilo (keep that bootable floppy handy) > and have a single lilo entry to boot the NT/2k loader, > which handles all the Win stuff. > > Cameron > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
