I've finally got LM7(.0) installed on my PC (yippee!)
However, because I chose to install it in the last 5G of a 20G disc
(my only drive), DrakX installation of LILO went woozy - essentially,
because LILO can't see beyond the 1024th cylinder. It still offered
to put LILO in the MBR, but I was wary - I don't want to lose the
Win98 installation on the front of the disc - so opted against this.
This means that I can only start Linux from the boot disc, which takes
*ages*!
Somewhere within DrakConf, I find an option to move lilo.conf, and the
help file talks about the advantages of moving lilo (which I presume
doesn't mean just lilo.conf?) to the low end of the disc.
Since linux can see the front 3/4 of my disc (as /mnt/dos), I presume
that I *could* move it there. Is it really as simple as changing the
boot drive (currently /dev/fd0) to /dev/hde1 (IIRC, that's where
/mnt/dos is) and relocating lilo.conf (currently /etc/lilo.conf) to
/mnt/dos/etc/lilo.conf (or similar)?
I would have expected that the kernel would have to be moved there too
- or does DrakConf do that behind the scenes?
And then, assuming that hurdle can be crossed, how can I set things up
so that I *can* use lilo to boot into either Windoze (as default) or
Linux?
There's a tiny complication in that I have a Promise Ultra66 IDE, but
it looks like DrakX has catered for this in lilo.conf.
I tried to make another boot disc following instructions in the lilo
config help mentioned above; this loads much faster, but
only to fall over with a kernel panic. I suspect this is because it
doesn't use lilo, so doesn't pick up the "ide2=0xmmm,0xnnn" setting
that lilo uses when booting linux. Is there any way to fix *that*?
[And I haven't even *begun* to worry about how to get my scanner (an
ancient Microtek Phantom C200) working, or my soundcard (SB Live!
Value), or a better driver for my DeskJet 850C, how to make sure I'm
not driving my Gateway VX700 monitor to an early grave, ...! Looks
like linux is a lot of work to install - but I think it's going to be
worth it!]
Thanks,
Brian
