On 4/12/99 luis wrote:
how can i install a sort of mbr that runs before lilo ?
because after having instaled debian i need to install a dos
partition, but as hda1 is the swap, hda2 linux and hda3 is dos, lilo
can not load the last partition (far beyong the 1024 kbytes limit)
if LILO won't boot it (really your BIOS is more the problem then LILO
i think) then the cheesy DOS MBR sure won't do it either.
so, is possible to boot the dos partition without repartitioning now
the disk?
probably not.
you might be able to get another boot loader that essentially loads a
full BIOS independent secondary loader that can load the DOS
partition, but other then that your pretty much SOL.
the only thing I could suggest is to change your swap partition to
type dos and your dos partition to type swap, run mkswap correct
/etc/fstab, zero out the new dos partition (where swap was) run
mkdosfs on it and install dos there, then lilo will work fine. this
may or may not be acceptable given the sizes of those partitions...
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