SuSE Linux: Version 7.1,7.3
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Lilo: Version 21.6,21.7.5
You are unable to use some of your fat partitions with windows. The linux command fdisk -l shows them as "Hidden FAT16".
A new feature in LILO, which became default to boot more than one windows installation with LILO.
Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf with an editor, e.g. joe or vi. Add the following line at the end of the 'global section' (before the first line 'image = /boot/vmlinuz'):
change-rules
reset
Then start LILO with the command
lilo
to activate the changes.
The new entry in /etc/lilo.conf takes care that from now on, LILO will not hide any partitions. This entry cannot undo the changes already done by LILO.
In order to make these partitions visible to Windows, the partition type has to be changed manually. This can be done with the fdisk program (only the Linux version). Log in to the system as root and start fdisk with the command fdisk /dev/hda (hda is the first IDE disk in the system; change appropriately). In fdisk you can use these commands:
p print the partition table
t change a partition's system id
m print a help menu
q quit without saving changes
w write table to disk and exit
If the partition is shown as type 16 (Hidden FAT16), it should be changed to type 6 (FAT16). With NTFS, a type 17 (Hidden HPFS/NTFS) partition should be changed to type 7 (HPFS/NTFS).
fdisk can show you a list of all known partition types with the command "l".
This feature will not be default in following SuSE Linux versions.