This might help for the future: I have a 13Gb disk, with LBA and fdisk reports (correctly) 1582 cylinders. On the disk I have Win NT, OS/2 Warp 4 and SuSE 6.2. The way to do it is to ensure that the primary partition needed for Win XX is within the 1024 cyl limit AND, also within that limit, you have a small ext2 partition (I use 2 cylinders = 15Mb) for /boot. The rest you can put where ever you like. It is NOT enough to start your / (root) partition below the 1024 cyl limit, as you have no guarantee that the kernel will be placed below 1024 cyl. It can be very difficult to play this game with lilo alone. Also you might need to watch the order of your installations. This is what I do: 1. Use the OS/2 Boot Manager to get set up. 2. Use a quick Linux installer or diskette to run fdisk, and mark the partitions as ext2, swap etc. If you don't, you will have drive letter assignment problems with Win XX, DOS, OS/2. (I keep around a Cheapbytes version of Mandrake 6.0 CD for quickies. It's also bootable.) 3. Install Win XX. Reenable the OS/2 Boot Manager or whatever else you migh be using - Powerquest's Boot Magic is fine & comes with Partiton Magic. 4. Install OS/2 (if needed). 5. Install Linux. At lilo time, make sure that you nominate the /boot partition and write the bootstrap to the logical partition, and NOT the extended partition (Make the wrong choice here and you start over again!) If you happen to use the OS/2 boot manager, to must NOT activate the /boot partition. If you use Powerquest's Boot Magic (as I do), you do activate the partition. If you use pure lilo - I don't know! As a rough rule of thumb, install the "easiest going" operating system last. Windows XX is a bitch - it insists on coming up from primary C:. OS/2 couldn't care less, as long as you boot it from below the 1024 cyl. limit on not too large a partition, while all the Linux distributions I've tried, also couldn't care less, again so long as /boot is below 1024. They never have partition size hangups like OS/2. Adir Abraham wrote: >We had few similar problems in the Linux Installation Party -- we couldn't >make LILO finding the Linux partition, or the Windows 98 partition on a >very few computers, so it simply just skipped them away going directly >into Windows 98, or Linux, so the (temporary) solution was to give him a >LILO diskette to manually boot Linux whenever he needs, and that way we >didn't have to mess with the MBR (because we just couldn't). >The problem was the HD, which was set by default (on the BIOS) to LBA >mode, giving it more than 1024 cylinders to count. LILO, LBA mode and more >than 1024 cylinders on the HD just don't work together.. check if you have >that problem. > >Adir. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Noam Meltzer wrote: > >> I installed redhat6.1 on my system. After overcoming on the problems of >> having no bootable partition (using cfdisk from slackware install) I was >> happy to start using redhat. >> Anyway I faced against the following situations, looking for solutions >> for both: >> >> 1) I don't want to write the root's password every time i start KPPP. >> >> 2) I can't make LILO to boot my win98 partition (it's not for me!!! my >> lousy sisters need it) >> My partition table goes like this: >> /dev/hda1 - Linux >> /dev/hda(2, it think) - Linux swap >> /dev/hda(3 and 5 i think) - fat32 partitions >> and the important section: >> /dev/hdb1 - fat32 bootable partition which has windows and should get >> booted through LILO >> >> Noam >> > >================================================================= >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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