When I'm setting up the partitions in cfdisk do I setup the linux partition
to be "bootable"? I noticed that the Windows partition is already setup that
way.

"reh" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> Carlton Whitmore wrote:
>
> > I installed Win2k Pro first on one partition then SW 9.1 on another
> > partition. Both partitions were listed as bootable in cfdisk, but when
> > I rebooted after install I got "invalid partition". When I changed the
> > SW partition to non-bootable it booted straight to Win2k. I know when
> > I installed SW 9.1 that it asked me if I wanted to install the boot
> > loader in MBR, Floppy or the SW partition. I told it the SW partition,
> > but that obviously didn't work.
> > Can someone help?
> > Carlton.
>
> You can install LILO on the MBR and select to boot Win or Slack. Or do
> as I did.
>
> Install Slack's LILO on /boot partition (or / if you didn't create
> seperate partitions). My laptop Slack boot partition is hda2.
> Then follow -> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader-5.html
>
> Always make a bootable disk.
>
> --
> robert - redhat & slackware
>