"Charles R. Buchanan" wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Madden
>
> >I've been playing with Lilo and other boot loaders without any luck.
> >I found an option to install it with a -l option, which makes it
> >"linear," whatever that means. I downloaded OS-BS, which at least got
> >me a menu upon boot, which is more than any others have done. With
> >that, I was at least able to get a "LI" and then screens of 0's. I've
> >gone back to my old "hammer on F8 to get a win98 startup menu, then drop
> >to dos and use linload" method, which is annoying, and unprofessional.
> >:)
> >
> >Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks...
>
> This guy has a large drive (over 8.4 gigs/over 1024 cylinders) and can't
> seem to get lilo to boot up regularly, so he's trying the above method.
> He's using slackware 3.6 if that helps.
>
> please reply here and/or privately if you could. Thanks!
>
> Charles
I use OS -BS to load Win 95, NT 4 and Linux. Linux was the last to be
installed. I found that the it was not possible to have the root partition
in the extended partition ( does that make sense??). I jiggered around with
the HDD ( using Partition Magic) until I had enough room to create the /root
outside of the extended partition and put the swap and /usr in the extended
partition and after that everything worked fine.
Hope that helps
Paul
