[techtalk] A Very Grumpy LILO--Help!

[Jodi Trautman]

Gaaaahhhhh! Please pardon me if I've completely missed
something obvious because I've only done about six
installs of RedHat Linux. This is my first 7.1 install
and it is also my first install where LINUX is
cohabitating with Windows. LILO is a gal that
apparently likes to keep to herself. Anyway,
Here's what I have:

Dell 8100 P4 1.7GHz with a 20GB hardrive. Hard drive
is split into 3 primary partitions: 1 has is the WIN2k
system volume formatted NTFS, 2 is a data volume for
installing programs, saving files, etc, is also NTFS
and is 16GB in size and primary partition three, 4GB
in size is where LINUX lives. It is also marked as the
active partition (which made 2K crabby but it will
just have to get over itself).

Here's what I know:
1. NT takes up the boot sector on partition 1 (hda1)
and doesn't share it nicely). I believe I will  need
to strip that out and overwrite it with the info from
the LINUX boot sector. I know to do that I will use 
dd if=/dev/hda3 of/=bootsector.lnx bs=512 count=1.  

2. I eventually sussed it out that in order to use
LBA32 AND to have a bootable partition after the 1024
sector, I had to use FDISK to create and configure the
partition, not Disk Druid. So much for the easy way
out. 

3. I can boot off the LINUX boot floppy but I need to
get my LILO working so that I can use it to get NT up.

4. LILO gives me this error: 
Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0701.
LILO was generated using the KDE
settings/system/autoprobe and looks like this:

boot="/dev/hda3"
timeout="50"
message=/boot/message
root=/dev/loop1

image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2"
label="2.4.2-2"
read only

image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzimage
label="Linux_Compiled"
root=/dev/hda3
read-only
optional

other=/dev/hda1
label="NT"

other=/dev/hda2
label="NT_DATA"

other=/dev/hda3
label="LINUX"

The only thing I can think of is that there's
something going on with my mounts--the root filesystem
claims to be /dev/loop1, which I think is my
ramdisk...AND hda3 doesn't seem to be mounted and if I
try, it complains that it's not in fstab or in mtab.
At this point, I've completely baffled myself and
despite a week of reading manuals, searching the web
and working on this, really haven't gotten any
further. Am I missing something completely obvious?
Please forgive if I am. I was just happy to figure out
the diskdruid v. fdisk thing. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

jodi 






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