Re: LILO instalation

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> > I can' t install a LILO boot   to use Win98&Linux on the same machine.
> > I try REDHAT 6.1 and SUSE 6.4 but dont works..install all patches but
after
> > reboot I dont have lilo prompt...only win98 loading.
> > i think the problem is my hard drive(have 13GB) I see a warning when I
try
> > lilo from the root prompt: No of  cylinders >1600
> > Anyone have a solution??
>
> IIRC lilo can't see above 1024 cylinders when it boots.  The kernel image
it uses has to entirely below 1024 to boot correctly.  On my system I have a
16Mb partition mounted as /boot near the beginning of the drive (ie below
the 1024 cylinder mark) where my kernel images and System.map lie.

I think this is right. Another problem is, lilo sometimes seems to have
problems being in the boot sector of drives other than hda/sda, etc. I can't
remember what the problem is exactly, but I know I've run into trouble
before. This really applies if you've upgraded to a PCI UDMA/66 controller
(like me), and still have the mobo IDE1 & IDE2 controllers active. I think
YaST also prevents installing lilo to other than hda, but I might be
dreaming.

(Also: you may want to check that you've not been 'gotcha-ed' - you are
installing lilo to the master boot record, not the linux partition or
something??)

Cheers,

Alex.

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