On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, David Delyn wrote:
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:04:35 +0930
> From: David Delyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] Lilo - Grub Problem
>
> Hi
> Perhaps one of your programmers can find the solution to this problem, it's
> one i find myself fixing for Newbies, not that I'm much more than a Newbie
> myself.
>
> The setup programm for Mandrake ( Redhat / Suse / Caldera are all the same)
> assumes that you are setting up on the first bootable drive.
> I fact this is ussually not the case for new users who have Winblows on this
> and have made space on their new second HDD for linux, and therefore the Lilo
> setup either will not install or installs in the wrong place. Hence when they
> try to reboot linux has disappeared or will only come up if they use a boot
> disk. For new users like this repartitioning a segment for the boot sector of
> linux on their first drive is a task beyond them and they don't want to
> rearrange their Hardware.
>
> I'm suggesting that altering Grub or lilo to actively select the correct drive
> to install into (possibly by querying the bios) and either turning off or
> telling the installer to turn of the bios virus detector would save many new
> users a lot of grief.
>
> BOL :-) dcd
>
I found that Lilo tends to flop on a lot of things, including if the
kernel is on a sector >1024, or it is on another hd. The best solution I
found to this is copy the kernel to a dos partition, and use loadlin.
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 21
