from Gerald/Edenyard: > I hesitate to chip in in the presence of so many real Linux geniuses (genii??) but this is what I did: I had to have EZ-Drive in the MBR because I've got a 20Gb HDD and an old BIOS, so LILO couldn't go in the MBR. Instead, I created a very small (100Mb) Linux partition right after the two DOS partitions and before any big stuff. This turned out as hda3 to Linux. I installed the LILO thing in the boot sector of hda3 by putting the line 'boot=/dev/hda3' in /etc/lilo.conf. I also had to have a line 'lba32' in there or else LILO had trouble with the geometry arrangements. As you know, lilo.conf has a section for each of the various things that could be booted from (e.g., DOS, Linux type 1, Linux type 2, etc.) and in each section is specified which partition (and which HDD if you have more than one) the 'thing' in question is located on.
How much of the 20 GB HDD does the BIOS recognize? You could keep a small partition at/near the low end for the Linux boot, then the rest of the Linux stuff wouldn't need to be within the BIOS-recognizable range. How much DOS stuff do you have? How big is your BIOS-recognizable range?
