Thanks a ton.
Just one small point. What *is* the latest version of lilo?
And as a previous poster mentioned, floppy disks are more unreliable these
days (Is it just me or is this a general trend?). My brand new boot disk
refuses to work.
Waiting for that version no...
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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: [LIH] Not booting into linux
> Arsalan Zaidi WROTE:
> >(using the PCQ CD). All went well, but I ended up with a LI at boot->up.
> /boot has to be within the first 1024 cylinders, for the older versions of
lilo.
>
> >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.
> Obviously. The MBR is read first and it has only the MBR of win98 on it.
>
> >I've heard that may be a problem, but surely there's a way around it!!
> There sure is. Heres what I suggest:
> Download the latest version of lilo using windows.
> Boot into Linux from a floppy disk (you did make a boot disk, didn't
you?), copy the lilo files to linux, reinstall lilo and install the new lilo
on the MBR.
> Remember to put LBA32 in lilo.conf and remove linear from there. This is
documented in the man page anyway.
>
> Devdas Bhagat
>
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