my lilo is happily installed on a fat32 partition. something else must be
wrong for you
Cheerio
Robin
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Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] help regarding linux installation
> 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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