Reinstalled NT; can't load dos

From: Yong Huang (yong321_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/12/03 

Date: 11 Jul 2003 22:09:34 -0700

I installed NT4 and RH Linux 6.2 before. They worked fine. I use lilo
to dual boot. Then I messed up NT, spent a lot of time and finally
repartitioned C drive and installed NT back on it (all using NT setup
disks). After I reboot and come to LILO boot: prompt, I wait a few
seconds (or press Enter) as usual. I should boot into NT. But I get
"Loading dos" instead and it hangs. I can type "linux" and boot into
linux fine. Is it because I need to wipe out Linux and install NT,
then Linux in that order?

I suspect NT install screwed up the first partition. Look at the
warning about Partition 1:

bash# fdisk -l /dev/hda #partition 7 is swap so it's OK
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7
Warning: invalid flag 0x4042 of partition table 7 will be corrected by
w(rite)

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1244 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1003504 6 FAT16
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(979, 63, 32) should be (979, 254, 63)
/dev/hda2 126 349 1799280 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 350 731 3068415 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda4 732 1244 4120672+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 732 1023 2345458+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1024 1211 1510078+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 ? 51222 106316 442540065 42 SFS

And my lilo.conf is:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=dos

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
        label=linux
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda5
        append="x86_serial_nr=1"

other=/dev/hda1
        label=dos

I have only one disk, Fujitsu MPC3102AT. In the process of
reinstalling NT, I changed jumpers to temporarily use a second disk
for recovery and wonder if I changed them back correctly. If I look at
the disk with the label side down, the jumpers are like the first
small picture (MASTER (Default)) at
http://www.fis.fujitsu.com/home/product.asp?L=en&PID=162&INFO=cfg

Thanks very much for help.

Yong Huang

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