has anyone any experience of using the 'linear' option with lilo when
booting from a scsi drive?
i have an ide drive and a scsi drive, setting my bios to boot from scsi
first used to work when i had win95 on it, but now i have put mandrake7
on its first partition and installed lilo to it's mbr i just get an
instant reboot at the point where one would expect to get the lilo
prompt, i have seen references to the 'linear' option in the mandrake
install but it warns that this could lead to data loss.
using partitionmagic partinfo program tells me that the scsi drive has
only 393 cylinders but as it is 3.2 gb i guess this is a translated
value so i am not sure if the necessity for lilo to reside on a
partition within the first 1024 cylinders is a problem here,
if i don't get any advice not to try i will go ahead and try using this
option but i'd welcome advice from anyone who knows about it as i have
important stuff on other partitions on this scsi drive and currently my
backup tape drive is dead.
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