whats the type of your first Partition. if its FAT32 then Lilo will not get
Installed in the Master Boot Partition. I am also facing the same Problem
with one of my Friends machine. Hence I used a floppy to Load Linux.
for Booting from Harddisk you have convert the First Partition to FAT16
type.
if you want partitions of more the 2GB and also want to Load lilo in master
boot partition then do one thing
make first partition of 200-300 MB of type FAT16 and then make larger
partions after that. they can be of any type EXT2 , FAT32 etc.
(Please Correct me if I am worng anywhere or if there's something better
than this)
-Nitin
Note :maximum size of a partition in FAT16 is 2GB. and Lilo cannot be Loaded
in FAT32 or NTFS
----- Original Message -----
From: Vipan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <":"@aunet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 7:29 AM
Subject: [LIH] help regarding linux installation
> Hello everyone,
> am using linux for last 1 yr and recently i purchase new hard disk of 17
GB
> capacity.
>
> now my problems starts. first of all, when i try to install linux 6.0
and
> 6.1 both separately), it refuse to make partition beyond 2 gb and then i
> find a alternative and make bigger linux partition with partition magic
4.0
> version from windows. now up to installation every thing was o.k..
>
> after installation system refuse to load lilo, linux boot loader with
error
> that no. of cylinders of hard disk is 4096 and it should be max, upto 1024
> for lilo installation.
>
>
>
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