On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Steve Olson wrote:
> All:
>
> I'm admittedly a Linux Newbie, but nowhere near a newbie when it comes to
> machines and software OS'es... I date back to MS-DOS 3.3 Days.
>
> I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or
> Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is: Lilo won't
> load and BM won't properly boot the Linux Partition.
>
> I have a 20 gig Hard drive, with 6 for Linux and Swap partitions. LILO says
> can't be installed on a partitoin that goes beyond cylinder 1024... thats a
>laugh...
> 99% of the drives sold in the last five years have cylinders many times 1024...
>
Hmm....Ok. It sounds like you may be trying to use the hard
drive in "native" mode instead of LBA mode. See if you can
go into your BIOS and set the drive type to "LBA." If you
can, that might be the way to get around LILO not liking
your boot loader where you're trying to put it. Alternative
would be to use Partition Magic (or one of the other
"non-destructive" partitioning tools) to make a small (5
meg) partition at the head of your hard drive and call it
/boot and install your kernel, etc there!
John
