On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:24:27 +0100, Franco Vecchiato wrote: >Hi, > >I had a problem when installing Debian 2.2 rev 0. >During the installation of LILO, the program asked me where to install it; >when I chose /dev/hda, the reply was: "The boot partition is a logical >partition ... Please select the partition to use. (/dev/hda2: DOS Extended)". > >I think my Bios full supports my 10 GB HD because I see 10 GB when I run it. >I have a 3 GB bootable primary partition for Windows (system) = hda1 and a 1.5 >GB logical partition for Windows data = hda5 (both FAT32); I made swap >partition (= hda7) and a Linux native partition in the remainder of the HD (= >hda6). Of course, during the installation cfdisk showed me that hda5, hda6 and >hda7 are logical partitions and hda1 is a bootable primary partition. > >I tried also to change Windows' filesystem from FAT32 to FAT32 (LBA) in both >hda1 and hda5 with Debian fdisk and then re-install Debian, but the result was >the same. > >What can I do to install correctly LILO during Debian installation?
My experience when I installed potato one month ago was very similar to yours. Apparently LILO doesn't like to be installed in an logiacal partition. I solved the problem creating a small primary boot partition for Debian, /hda2 (150 Mb should be OK) . You should mark it as bootable, use cfdisk for this. In this primary partition you should install LILO. You can put the swap and the rest of Debian in the extended partition where the logical windows data partition resides. Hope this helps, Marcelo _____________________ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
