Pedro Rosa wrote:
>
> 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.
Good choice. Now download the latest LILO .. rpm and you can
install it.
If you like it.
If your HD is an LBA, in all cases no pb with this 1024st
cylinder.
Eric MC
> 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
