me tinks you have to create a small partition < 20M and mount it "/boot" on ur 2nd harddrive, or u could use grub @ gnu.org/grub
lilo cant boot from partitions greater that 1024th cylinder. hte_pagan On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:34:18PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote: > hi, > just installed "slink". everything is ok, except that LILO is screwed. i > installed LILO in the MBR of hda1. when i reboot the computer, i can't see > the letters "LILO" because the entire screen is filled with strings of "01". > and it just keeps showing "01". so i can boot to windows or linux. > > here is my harddisk setup: > /dev/hda1 - Windows 98 4Gb (default) > /dev/hdb - CD-ROM > /dev/hdd1 - Linux "/" 1.5Gb > /dev/hdd2 - Linux "/usr" 3Gb > /dev/hdd3 - Linux "/var" 3Gb > /dev/hdd4 - Linux Swap 32Mb > > i managed to boot to linux using a boot disk, and reconfigue lilo.conf. > however, when i run LILO from /sbin, here is the message : > Warning : BIOS Drive 0x82 may not be accessible > > here is my lilo.conf : > > boot=/dev/hda > vga=normal > timeout=300 > message=/boot/message > prompt > > other=/dev/hda1 > label="Windows" > table=/dev/hda > > image=/vmlinuz > label="Linux" > readonly > root=/dev/hdd1 > > > thanks > -ken > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
