Linux can be anywhere. To boot an hd with lilo, the BIOS must be able
to get at everything lilo needs: /boot/boot.b, /boot/map, and any
kernel images. That doesn't sound like a very big drive. Probably you
can get into setup and choose an "LBA" mapping so the BIOS can get at
the whole thing in 500 cylinders with 64 or 128 or 256 heads or so. If
you can, you will still have to boot linux once from a floppy to
reinstall lilo. Also, lilo should have told you it had a problem when
you installed it, if this _is_ the problem. (Some of lilo's abort
messages are a bit low key, but ignore them at your peril).
You did install lilo?
lilo &>oops
and send us oops, or at least read it :-) Also /etc/lilo.conf, and your
setup.
If you really do have a 1024-sector problem, the easiest solution is
usually to make a small partition for /boot, and install all kernel
images there. By default, lilo installs the files it needs during
bootup in /boot.
Lawson
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, The Qaz wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Qaz
>
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