There is a way out . Download the latest lilo and keep it handy on a
floppy. Make your partition using fdisk- not Disk Druid. Install your
system and reboot. This time , when the CD boots , at the lilo prompt do a
linux root=/dev/hdax where hdax is your root partition"/" .It will boot into
linux. ignore any error messages. copy lilo from your floppy and install it
, either by recompiling or by using a binary. then do a lilo -v and reboot .
You should be OK. Or else use a newer distro- Both SuSE 7.0 and RedHat 7.0
use the new lilo and so do not have this problem
Shanker
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Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:42 PM
Subject: [ilug-cal] problem in installation
> Hi Folks
>
> This is the reply which I got from PCQ Team.It says that I will have to
> delete all my partitions.
>
> Is there any other way ( Indra , Arup R U listening..).
>
> Thanks
>
> Kamal Karnatak
>
> System Executive
>
> ________________
>
> Hello:
>
> Because of the way the computer's BIOS was designed in the past, the
> boot sector should be withing the first 1024 cylinders of the disk.
> This
> means that /boot should be a partition in the beginning of the disk.
> Since
> you already have windows there, this is most probably not possible
> unless
> you recreate the windows partition.
>
>
> 1) Delete *all* partitions on your hard disk including C:
> 2) Create a new primary partition for windows which < 1GB preferably and
>
> create an extended partition using DOS Fdisk. Do not create logical
> DOS drives at this point. REPEAT: DO NOT CREATE LOGICAL DOS DRIVES AT
> THIS
> POINT.
> 3) Install Windows on C:
> 4) Boot using the 6.2 Installation CD using /text/ mode and /not/ GUI
> mode
> 5) Create /boot at the beginning of the extd partn, ie, it should come
> right after /dev/hda1 (C:)
> 6) Create other Linux partitions as necessary for "/" etc
> 7) Complete installation
>
> -- PCQ
>
> Kamal Karnatak wrote:
> >I am facing a problem at the time of loading PCQ Linux 6.2 . Actually I
>
> >have upgraded my PC from P1 to P3 . I have following configuration.
> >Mother Board - VIA Processor - Pentium 700 MHZ AGP Card - SIS 8 MB RAm
> >Compaq Prsario Monitor 20 GB SEAGATE HDD.
> >
> >I have partitioned my hard disk in 4 partition of 5 GB each . 3
> >partitions are being used for windows and in the last partition I am
> >trying to load linux. whenver I am using Disk Druid to partition my
> >HDD and setting my /root partition or /boot partition . It is giving
> >mssage that boot partition too big . What may be the problem and
> >Please tell what is the solution.
>
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