On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:07:55PM +0530, Arsalan Zaidi wrote:
>I finally got my partitions sorted out and set about installing RH 6.2
>(using the PCQ CD). All went well, but I ended up with a LI at boot-up.
>
>I fdisk /mbr'ed C: and reinstalled RH. This time I instead of placing lilo
>on the MBR, I had it installed on the linux partition itself. Rebooted, but
>no lilo. The machine boots straight into Win98.
>
>I have a 10.2 GB HDD and linux is installed on the 1033 cyclinder onwards.
>I've heard that may be a problem, but surely there's a way around it!!
You can try the following....
Create a small primary partition of about say 20MB within the first 1024
cylinders and then name it(mount point) as /boot during install. If there is no
space within the first 1024 cylinders then use FIPS to break up C:. FIPS is
available on the PCQ RH CD in dosutils directory. Read the FIPS
documentation carefully! Install LILO on the /boot partition.
Set the /boot(/dev/hda? ?=1-4) partition as the active partition.
If you are intimidated by the above procedure, you can create a boot disk
and boot into Linux using that. You'll get the option to create a boot disk
during install. The floppy disks available today are highly unreliable!
HTH
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Anand Biligiri S
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