On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Jesus Roncero wrote:
> Hi,
> I've bought a brand new 13Gb IDE Hard Disk and now I can, I've made a
> 3Gb partition for linux at the end of the disk. The partitions on the
> disk are the following:
> 1: NTFS. Primary partition. Windows NT on it.
> 2: OS/2 boot manager. Primary partition.
> 3: HPFS: Primary partition. OS/2 Warp 4.0 on it.
> 4,5,6: HPFS: Logical partitions for NT and Warp.
> 7,8: Linux and swap.
>
> The linux partition is at the end of the hard disk. I've instaled
> mandrake 6.1 onto it, but have chosen to install lilo in the logical
> partition, not in the MBR, to avoid damage to the windows NT partition.
> (Windows NT boot manager is not very nice). OS/2 boot manager boots
> everything,even linux as long as you create the partitios with OS/2.
> That's what I've been doing with my old drive, but know, it refuses to
> add that partition to the boot manager, the partition is over the 1024
> cylinder. So, what I've done to boot so far, is to use the disk created
> at instalation time, which boots soon from the HD. My question is, is
> there any way I could boot from the HD, from the lilo I have in the HD
> rather than using the 3.5" disk?. (I wouldn't like to change the
> partitions).
Nope not going to happen, you could get away with useing loadlin but nt
doesn't have dos mode. You need a /boot partition somewhere in that 1024,
or you'll have to keep useing the bootdisk.
> Another question: I like using more that 25 lines in the console, just
> as if you typed mode 80,50 in MS-DOS. In redhat I've got it adding
> vga=extended to /etc/lilo.conf . But Mandrake changes it to 25 lines
> somehow, maybe to show the logo for the login. How can I change that?,
> and how could I change that if I were forced to use the 3.5" disk boot
> procedure?
Did you update the bootdisk after doing it? if so try vga=ask let it scan
pick your choice if it works replace the =ask with it. If you haven't
updated the disk alter the boot= line to point at the floppy.
> Thanks, thats all for now! :)
>
>
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>
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