On Monday 25 March 2002 00:31, Cincai Patron wrote:
Hi, don't know about any websites, sorry. But basically this [ setting /boot active, an interesting point] can be done only if your /boot is in a primary partition, otherwise it will not work. When yast2 is about to install lilo, just select /boot as the target and we don't need to care for the rest, because the effect is the same as if lilo is installed on MBR. It's just convinient (and safer) to have 2 boot loader (plus boot disk for each OS), in case something happen.
To view which actived partition, in linux, use "fdisk /dev/hd?", then "p". The actived partition is displayed with "*" mark. Under Win9x
or ME, also use fdisk. But under XP, use "diskpart". Please remember do
not use partition magic to select active partition, because pqmagic will hide the unactived primary partition. You're talking about BootMagic, a program which you need not use, even if you choose to use PartitionMagic. PM can be used to recover from BM problems, such as a number of active partitions other than 1. This causes Windows could not boot (if the hidden partition is Win) or in case of linux, it will mount / will be in "ro" mode.
One final remainder, if you've ever "shifted" or "moved" your primary partition (wnidows) **before** you install Linux, pay attention to the order/naming of each partition. It will cause a little problem when you
use fdisk or diskpart to change active partition for the first time.
-- Tim Prince