Carlton Whitmore wrote:

> 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.
>

Probably the hardest thing to grasp is there are many, many ways to
accomplish the same thing.

If you do the setup like I said, the Windows partition need to be
bootable. That is why you make a 512 byte image of the SW boot
partition and copy it to C:\, and add it to the boot.ini file.

On the other hand, if the SW partition is bootable, you will need to add
the Windows partition information to the lilo.conf.

Think of it like this. Depends what partition is bootable.

Windows: you will need the 512byte file from the SW partition added to
the boot.ini file to 'jump' to the the SW partition to continue
booting.
SW: you will need to add the Windows partition to the lilo.conf to
'jump' to the Windows partition.

For reasons that may confuse you now, I setup my dual boot boxes as I
mentioned. Windows is the boot partition and add the 512byte image
from the Slack / partition.

--
robert - redhat & slackware