Ellick Chan wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>
> > 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.
This >1024 problem seems to have been corrected very recently. Freshmeat
announcement on version 21.5:
"(...)Lilo is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if
the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface."
Meanwhile I think that you should try grub. At first sight it is quite
unfamiliar as it presents paramaeters common to other systems (hd's are
numbered from 0 to ...) and command syntaxis is quite weird. However
grub possesses several + in relation to lilo. It is OS independent. It
has a interface system where you can give operate things before booting
into the OS. It has a small group of commands and it does not need to
know the exact location of the kernel. Yes, for most users this stuff is
quite hard to work with. But I think it deserves a look.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ellick Chan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jul 21
