You forgot to mention a fourth choice, which is loadlin boot disk, and a fifth choich which is a linux boot disk made with mkboot, and a sixth choice which is a boot-disk created with the kernel-image's boot disk creator (it does not generate the same disks, since I made one with mkboot which did not booted, and one with the kernel-image which booted).
Robert Varga On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jim Breton wrote: > Does anyone know the likelihood of getting the version of lilo which > supports booting from above the 1024th cylinder into potato? > > From /usr/doc/lilo/changelog.Debian.gz: > > lilo (1:21.3-3) unstable; urgency=HIGH > > * This version supports booting from cylinders above 1024. > (Been in unstable for 3 weeks, and I got 0 complaints about it, so > I think it's definatly worth to include it in potato). > > -- Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:57:10 > +0100 > > > My particular problem is the typical one. However, there's something I > don't understand. I downloaded the lilo source for version 21.4.3 which > supposedly supports this operation on "modern" drives/BIOSes... compiled > it, and tried to run it on my new machine which is running an Athlon 750 > on an Asus K7M, with a Maxtor 7200 RPM ATA66 30 GB drive... and the BIOS > is dated Dec. 99 IIRC. Shouldn't this be sufficiently recent to allow > me to boot from >1024? > > I want to set up a 10GB FAT32 partition for Win98 on hda1, and have my > linux and swap partitions as hda2 and hda3. But when I tried this -- > even with the new lilo -- same old error message. Anyone have any idea > at all how to make this work with Lilo? > > Changing the partitioning scheme is really not an option (long story) so > afaict my choices are: > > - loadlin (works fine now but should Windows ever become unbootable for > any reason... I'd be screwed ;) ) > > - set up GRUB, which, if I am correct, will not have this problem (am I > right?) > > - figure out wtf I am doing wrong with Lilo! > > > Thank you for any advice. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >