Dear All, Recently I tried to install WinMe and linux in a dual boot environment using lilo, everything is going fine, however there is a very funny behaviour happened. Whenever after using linux, the WinMe refuse to boot, I have to go to use safe mode and reboot it again to WinME, otherwise it won't boot into WinME normal mode. I have a 15G HD, with 5 partitions, the size and partition number is as follows: hda1 2G WinME C: hda2 Extends hda5 60M Linux /boot hda6 5G WinME D: hda7 256M Linux Swap hda8 7G Linux / Any suggestion welcome. Thank you. Wallace

hi :) well i've installed a conectiva linux 7.0 here, my 20G WD HD is just like this |-------fat32 (5G) | \----------fat32(5G) | \---fat32(5G) |-------ext2(3600M) |-------swp (400M) windows was already instaled when a boot the conectiva instalation disk, it's the easyest and the only way i now to have the both OS working...try avoiding this /boot and /linux partition, it's useless, and will not afct performace, also u may get lost and your linux distribution too, well i think so. my sugestion for u is geting a program like partition magic, to avoid losing files(ex. mp3s). and for exemple do this: |-----fat32(5G) |-----ext2 (9.5G) |-----swp (0.5G) I have 384M ram and my swap is 470M... U won't need any more... Now my problem is make my SB 128 PCI(es1370) work and my Hayes 56K ISA too... And affter both working try recompiling kernel and only maybe X too... kinda hard hm? i have no idia how to do this! :)

WOW! I finally found someone with the same problem! Of course, it's been a long time since you posted this. Have you found a solution? I was beginning to think the rest of the world knew something I didn't about Win ME and Linux being incompatible. I ended up talking to a Compaq support guy (unofficially) who recommended the following as being maybe not the ONLY way, but the hardest-to-screw-up way to get ME and Linux to share a disk. Win ME loads with 2 partitions. Make your Windows Boot floppy first. Steal the second partition (SYSTEM_SAV) and partition it into a Linux Partition and a Linux Swap Partition ONLY. Load Linux to boot from floppy ONLY, not from the hard drive. Set your BIOS to boot from floppy first, hard drive second. You *should* be able to boot Win ME from your Hard drive with no problems. You should also be able to boot Linux from the floppy with no other problems. Now, I haven't TRIED this, you understand. I'm only just finished scrubbing my disk and reinstalling Windows. I haven't even tried reinstalling Linux yet. I was looking for other possible solutions before I screw this up again. God, I hate not knowing how to do stuff. If you have any other ideas, e-mail me.