[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello friends, > i bought new pc with 8.4 GB HDD. i wanted to devote 1 GB to linux. > initially there were 2 partitions. 5BG(c:) & 3 GB(d:). i cut one more > partition using fips from c: and installed linux on it. everything was > smooth till then. but when i booted in windows 98 my d: was showing size > 0. i reformatted the d: partition from windows itself (using right click > option) but after that linux refused to boot. the disk druid shows all the > partitions properly so i tried using linux fdisk. it gave me a warning > that the no of cylinders on the disk is 1048 which is greater that 1024. > hense there might be some problems with LILO or other OSs. > can anyone tell me the solution? > also i ve on board AGP card. which card should i select from the card > database? or how do i find out the company of the card? > > bye > aseem > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on the LIH mailing list see: > http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH When I faced similar problem for a 17GB hard disk, I used loadlin from dos to boot linux and ran lilo. Afterwards linux booting was alright. -Sekar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
