According to The Qaz: While burning my CPU.
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> Greetings all, i am tryin to put linux on one of my laptops that i need
> win98 on as well,.. i have win98 on it and running,.. so i took part of
> the d: drive and spilt it in half giving almost 900M for linux...
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> but the problem is after i got it to install,i couldn't get it to boot
> into linux on the first boot after using the boot/root floppies after the
> install. I had heard somewhere the linux had to be somewhere with the
> first 1024 of the drive, is this true?
No linux can be anywhere, its LILO which has the problem if the system is
beyond the 1024 clys, boundry.
You should be able to boot the system with a boot floppy from the
distribution cdrom, (or distro, medium).
Use the boot floppy which you made to install, when the computer boots you
will get a prompt asking what you want to do, type at that prompt;
mount root=/dev/hdxx ro
It should then boot, /dev/hdxx would be the drive and partition of the "/"
root filesytem, possably something like /dev/hdb2 in your case, second
partition of the primary slave.
Now i am taking that you installed the whole system on one partition, you
would now extracht the floppy from the drive, place a clean dos formatted
floppy back in, and make a boot disk, with redhat you can simply type 'make
bootdisk' i belive.
If you need more information please dont hesitae to write another mail, but,
PLEASE include your system details. Drive spesifcations and distro details.
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> Cheers,
>
> Qaz
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Regards Richard.
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