it is possible that your partitions are set in such a way that your Linux
partitions are above the 1024 cylinder limit?
it sounds likely, if you bought one of the retail versions of Mandrake, see
if it has Partition Magic SE (special edition because they limit the size
and number of partitions that you may create).
With Partition Magic SE, you could create a 1.5gig partition, it would
defragment and MOVE your data so that there is a slice of free space at the
beginning of the drive for the boot and lilo.
at least that's what it did on my laptop 8 gig drive.
R.'Trebor' Groves
Network Technician, HarvardNet
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jaswinder S.
Ahluwalia
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 9:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Lilo
To whom it may concern,
I am running windows 98 on my machine with a 8 gb hard disk. I used fips
to create a new partition (2 gb). Now my set up is 6gb and 2gb. I used
disk druid to delte that partition and create two more the size of 1872 mb
(linux native) and 128 mb (swap).
I recently tried to install linux mandrake 6.1 but failed. When prompted
if i would like to create a boot disk, i said yes but an error message
came up that asked if wanted to go to the previous step, retry, or go into
the install menu. I hit retry several times and used different floppies
but i kept getting the same error. I decided to move on. when trying to
set up lilo, i recieved the same error again, no matter what i set as the
default os and no matter which partition i decided to set up lilo on
(linux native or master boot record).
Does any body have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Jas
