Did you have a look at where your linux boot partition is located?  If it 
ends above the 1023 cylinder, it will not boot.  Partition Magic will show 
you this information.  If you're boot partition ends above 1023, you'll 
have to move it.

John
At 05:24 AM 2/25/00 -0500, Sajjad Khaliq wrote:
>I installed Red Hat 6.1 as a dual boot with NT 4.0 and Powerquest
>Boot Magic as the boot manager, but Linux will not boot.
>The installation is thus:
>
>1) NT 4.0 on a FAT 16 partition was installed first
>2) Powerquest Bootmagic was installed second
>3) Then Linux Red Hat 6.1 was installed on an EXT2 partition, and
>    LILO was placed on the Linux partition and all partitions set to
>    hidden.
>
>When Linux is selected from the Bootmagic menu, it says starting
>Linux Redhat 6.1 and will not go any further. The same is true even
>with Bootmagic disabled and the "other operating" system is selected
>from the NT boot menu.
>
>How can this be resolved with minimum effort and not having to
>remove NT?
>
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