[Guy]

I am having trouble with getting my linux partition into Bootmagic. I have Partition Magic 5 and I have these Drives:
Disk 1:
C:WIN98 | FAT32 | 4110.4 | 2679.1 | 1431.2 | Active | Primary

Disk 2:
D: | FAT32 | 8385.5 | 4569.2 | 3816.3 | None | Primary
*. | Extended | 1145.3 | 1145.3 | 0.0 | None | Primary
*.Linux | Linux Ext2 | 1082.5 | 832.5 | 250.5 | Bootable | Logical
*.SWAP-SPACE | Linux Swap | 62.7 | 0.0 | 62.7 | None | Logical

For those unfamiliar with Partition Magic, The catagories are:
Partition | Type | Size MB | Used MB | Unused MB | Status | Pri/Log

Okay, now I go into bootmagic and it detects my c: drive (good) that has windows 98 and then it detects my primary first partition as being bootable with "Win95/98 or MS-DOS". So I look in the help and it says if your drive you want to boot from was not detected then click the advanced box and choose your drive. I click, and nothing happens, It only shows my C: and my first partition.

I'm really stumped here. Please help.

[Mulderator]

Guy, I am moving this to the hardware forum where I think you will get more help.

[LarryCore]

I think Boot Magic will only boot to drives that have letters assigned to them.

Why doesn't your Linux drive have a letter? Can you get it one in PQMagic somehow?

[Guy]

I have no idea why my linux partition doesnt have a drive letter. To the best of my knowledge, all non FAT or FAT32 drives dont show up in windows. I've gone through all the help files, tools and other commands and cant seem to find anything that will solve this.

[LarryCore]

I don't know anything about Linux, and this seems to be an issue with getting a Linux partition to be seen.

So, I am moving this over to the Linux forum where they will hopefully have some answers for you.

Please make a new post here if you have trouble booting to 95/98.

[MikeV]

Ahh...

Your Linux partition (and swap partition) need to be Primary partitions on your drive.

Give that a shot, let me know how it works out.

Mike

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[Guy]

Man... thanks tons.

I havnt tried your suggestion yet but I was looking at your suggestion with my friend who was trying to figure out my problem for the longest time and he agreed with you fully and felt stupid not knowing that. I was accually planning on converting it but the partition magic warnings scared me off.

I'm pretty sure it will work but if it doesnt... well, i guess ill come crying back here again.

[MikeV]

No problem.

Let us know how it works out!

Mike

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It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Lewis' Law: People will buy anything that's one to a customer...

Hurewitz's Memory Principle: The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to... to... uh.....

[Guy]

well... still nothing.
I got my hopes up but My Linux just doesnt wanna boot.

Well I'm still stuck and I'm willing to try anything so if you have ANY other suggestions I could sure use them. If you need any information about my computer at all just ask.

But for know ill just keep booting from floppy.

[MikeV]

When you installed Linux, did you install LILO? Assuming you did, and I'm hoping that you installed it to the superblock of the Linux partition, not the MBR. If you wrote it to the MBR, BootMagic will overwright it and you won't be bootable.

Now then, check your /etc/lilo.conf and make sure it's correct. What you're going to look for is the section that says

boot = /dev/hdxx

Which is where you need to make sure you have the right drive and partition specified.
Since Linux is on your 2nd drive, which I assume is IDE, you want boot to read /dev/hdbx which will point to the 2nd IDE drive. If you changed the Linux partitions to Primary like you said, you should be pointing to the 2nd partiton on the disk (/dev/hdb2).

Got all that? Basically, you will want LILO to have boot = /dev/hdb2, and you will also want to make sure there's a line saying root = /dev/hdb2 as well.

hope this helps a bit more.

M

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It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Lewis' Law: People will buy anything that's one to a customer...

Hurewitz's Memory Principle: The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to... to... uh.....