[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Very interesting. I recently had a similar problem when I installed a
> 9.1 GB drive. I had an old 1 GB EIDE drive in the machine, and even
> though I told my system BIOS to boot from SCSI, and had DISABLED the
> EIDE drive there, LILO tried to install itself on the MBR of /dev/
> hda1. I had to physically disconnect the drive to get LILO to find
> the correct MBR.
> This might just be a problem with the Redhat installer, as I suspect
> it would work if one manually specified the correct partition to /etc/
> lilo.conf .
Another factor with a 9.1Gb drive in the system can be the partitioning & how
lilo views that drive. On a 9.1Gb drive you should, even with LBA, have on
the order of 1107 cylinders on the drive. I get warnings from lilo all the
time. Boots fine, but lilo complains a lot. 8^)
rickf
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