Hi Narain,
First of all apologies. I know you had posted earlier mail to me that you have setup
lilo with ontrack os. I just lost the mail. Could not trace the person who sent me the
mail.:-)
>>>> Now also on startup it shows as 8.4GB HDD but after the
>>>> loadking of ontrack OS 17GB is recognised by windos :-).
>
>I don't get U here - just what do U mean??? Do U mean to say that u'r BIOS
>identifies the disk initially as an 8.4GB disk, but u'r OS later
>recognizes it as a 17GB disk???
Correct. If ontrack OS is not started than win98 fdisk shows the HDD as 8.4GB but if
after
starting ontrack OS if I run win98 fdisk it shows full 17GB :-)
>>>> Now after running the lilo I do not get lilo prompt, but
>>>> it goes directly to loadlin menu which I had setup earlier.
>
>U mean it goes directly to dos??? If that is the case u'r Linux (ext2)
>primary partition (most probably /boot) where LILO is installed is *NOT*
>the active primary partition. Just run `fdisk` from *PURE F8 DOS* and make
>that u'r active partition. If not U have some clarifications to make...
>1. Are U getting the BLUE ONTRACK load indication still???
>2. What exactly happens after the BIOS is thru' - I mean any messages
>etc???
My linux partition is not primary. It is extended partition. I cannot make the
partition active
since it is an extended partition.
1. Yes. BLUE ONTRACK load indication is still coming and than the menu which I had
setup in
config.sys is coming to boot windows, SuSE6.3 etc.
2. After bios is through no error messages, directly the ONTRACK OS starts.
My Partition table is as follows :
<SNIP>
rajesh:~ # fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 25698 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1040 2096451 b Win95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(260, 254, 63) should be (260, 63, 63)
/dev/hda2 1040 8352 14739637+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1022, 254, 63) should be (1022, 63, 63)
/dev/hda5 1040 2084 2104483+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 2084 3658 3172806 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 3658 6300 5325264 83 Linux ( SuSE 6.3 )
/dev/hda8 6300 6365 131512+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 6365 7305 1894504+ 83 Linux ( Oracle 8i )
/dev/hda10 7305 8352 2110720+ 83 Linux ( Red Hat 6.2 )
rajesh:~ #
<SNIP>
>
>>>> I have even put linear in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
>I don't know if that is the wisest thing to do...
>
><snip from `man lilo.conf`>
>
>When using `linear' with large
>disks, /sbin/lilo may generate references to inac-
>cessible disk areas, because 3D sector addresses
>are not known before boot time.
>
></snip from `man lilo.conf`>
If I don't put linear in /etc/lilo.conf than running /sbin/lilo -v gives the following
error :
<SNIP>
rajesh:/etc # /sbin/lilo -v
LILO version 21E, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda7
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Warning: device 0x0307 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (5353 > 1023)
try the LINEAR option (or -l) if you have a 'INT 13 extensions' capable BIOS.
<SNIP>
After putting linear in /etc/lilo.conf the results are as follows :
<SNIP>
rajesh:/etc # /sbin/lilo -v
LILO version 21E, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda7
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Added linux
Boot other: /dev/hda1, loader /boot/chain.b
Added win *
/boot/boot.0307 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
rajesh:/etc #
<SNIP>
What should I do ?
Thanks
Regards
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Rajesh(ALIAS Shriram) Fowkar
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