On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, guy keren wrote:
Add lba32 with new LiLo versions.
--Ariel
> On 19 Nov 2000, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
> > > I have put RedHat 6.0 with NT and it worked just fine.
> > > But that was a year ago with old LILO. Why would NT
> > > have problems ?
> >
> > Dunno. I could not afford experiments for reasons beyond my control,
> > I only read the RH installer's rambling and followed it.
>
> my guess is that the linux partition was beyond cylinder 1024 on the disk.
> previus versions of redhat linux didn't check for this condition, allowed
> you to install LILO on the root partition, and after you rebooted the
> machine, LILO failed to work.
>
> however, i was told that the latest versions of LILO have removed the 1024
> cylinder limitation, thought i haven't tested it at all. also, i was told
> that grub (the boot loader that comes with mandrake 7.2) does not have
> this limitation.
>
> do check for the location of your linux's root partition. if its beyond
> the 1024 cylinder - that might the reason for option #2.
>
> as for putting LILO on the MBR - i haven't tested it yet with winNT
> installs - only with win9X installs - because i prefer LILO to be on the
> root partition.
>
> maybe that helps,
>
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> guy
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