IIRC The OP just wanted to be able to boot his existing installation off the hard disk .Going for a fresh install is a bit drastic. Regards,
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] Reg:1024 cylinder limit > On 15 Jan 2002 at 0:10, chandrasekar wrote: > > cudnot have the boot partition of linux within the 1024 limit. Now I have to > > boot to my linux thro a boot disk. Is there anyway we can overcome this for > > If you install lilo>3.21(IIRC) then you don't have this problem. > > Try RHL7.2/MDK8.1 as a test installation. Be ready to kill it but most probably > you won't need to. Anyways a test linux installation is hardly matter of 40 > minutes and 1.5GB.. > > But careful as where and how you put lilo. If you put linux on extended > partition and lilo on MBR of linux '/' you have to mark it active which XP may > refuse and if you don't have boot disk... well.. you can imagine... > > Shridhar > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
