Question for Ray Menke

Ray, you were right.

I did a little cheat and used a DOS floppy to boot with and ran the
Dos fdisk command to look at the hard drive. This is what I saw on
the screen: (listed vertically instead of horizontally)

Partition: 1 2
Status:
Type: Non-Dos Ext Dos
Volume:
Label:
Mbytes: 16 1533
System:
Usage: 3% 100%



(Dos didn't recognize an active partition either)

I then cheated and used the dos fdisk to set the status on partition
1 to 'A' to make it the active partition. (What did I have to lose?)

I then removed the dos disk and let the pc reboot and up came LILO!

I saw the following:

Lilo boot:

Red Hat LInux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernal 2.0.36 on an i686
Localhost login:


After Linux booted I used the command you suggested and here is what
I have showing:

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3148 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

(I'm going to list the rest vertically here)

Device /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda5 /dev/hda6
Boot *
Start 1 34 34 3083
End 33 3148 3082 3148
Blocks 16600+ 1569960 1536664+ 33232+
Id 83 5 83 82
System Linux Native Extended Linux Native Linux Swap

(And the message:)
Disk doesn't contain a valid partition table.
(this message only appears with the fdisk -l command)

(and then i see;)
[root@localhost /root]#

Just so I can be sure, which partition should be the boot or active
partition?

I'll remove and redo the instalation again later on.

Don

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Ray Menke <rndmenke@L...> wrote:
You need to make the boot partition active. Run fdisk again and make
one of the partitions active. If you do "fdisk -l", it will show a
listing of your partitions. One of them should have an asterisk
under the column headed boot. (I just checked this on my RH5.2
system.) Hope this helps.

--
Ray Menke RnDMenke@l...