--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, kero chan wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed RHLinux7 on a box (Dell Dimension
> > 4100)which already has w2k professional. After
> > rebooting, I didn't get LILO (although I did
> choose to
> > use LILO in MBR), and it went right through to win
> > booting. I don't think this is a machine specific
> > issue since I did the same installation on a
> notebook
> > (Micron TransPort Trek2) and got the same result -
> no
> > LILO. Is there a known issue that you cannot use
> LILO
> > with w2k professional? Is there any way to get
> around
> > with the problem and use LILO? I'd appreciate any
> > comments or ideas.
> >
> > TIA,
> > kero
> >
> I may be a bit of an old curmudgeon, but I don't
> trust any distro
> installer to install lilo. The canonical installer
> for lilo is
> /sbin/lilo. Boot linux from a floppy if need be,
> edit /etc/lilo.conf
> to suit your situation, and run /sbin/lilo from a
> console. Pay
> attention to error messages. If you told it to
> install into the MBR
> ( boot = /dev/hda, for instance) it will install
> into the MBR or it will
> give you a message on stderr to tell you why it
> didn't. This may break
> your w2k bootloader. It might rely on using the MBR
> for its own
> purposes. I don't know. Wine is as close as I will
> ever get to any
> windows, and it is a *nix program.
>
> Lawson
>
> Half begun is well done. - Benjamin Franklin
> Spooner
> ---cut here
>
Hi Lawson,
Thanks for the tip. I looked into /etc/lilo.conf and
found out that "boot=" was set to "boot=/dev/hda8" for
some reason. I changed it to "boot=/dev/hda"
Also, when I type 'lilo', I got the following msg:
Warning: device 0x0308 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
Fatal: sector ... too large for linear mode(try
'lba32' instead)
So, I modified lilo.conf to use 'lba32', then, lilo
worked.
Thanks again,
kero
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