[newbie] Fw: LILO & Boot Magic install ?

[aifusionextreme]

I have just caught up with the latest emails, seems a lot of poeple are experiencing the same thing.   A lot of the suggestions have been that the mbr is messed up. This is not the case! I have fdisk it hundreds of time since getting this error and each time lilo installs the same happens. Windows boots fine, dos boots fine ( after a fdisk /mbr ) and the relavnt system install, it is just lilo and boot magic. One said he thought it was his HD, let me tell it has nothing to do with you r HD. I think it has to do with the size of the primary partition. At present I am not willing to play with the data on my HD as it is too critical to test this thoery, which is why I am trying to find out from those who know what the limitations on these two boot managers is.   The only Clue is the size:   Boot magic actually gives an error message which says that the primary partition must be in the first 1023 cylnders. Why is cares about the rest of the HD and not just the mbr I cant farthom. But there you have it. Since boot magic wont install and lilo does but fails I assume they both cant handle larger drives. When I installed before I had nice neat partitions around the 2-4 GB mark. I assume this didnt exceed the 1023 cylders option, assuming that this is the cause. Currently I have a 14GB and a 40GB. Both exitbite the same behavoiur.   if any body with the no-how can help in confirming this theory or indictae what limitations the software might have the Please Help. It is not just me as you acan see from the posting.   If there is a cyclionder limitation can you explain why a boot manager needs to know about anythning but the mbr ?   More importantly how can go about fixing this bug  ?   Thanks in advance   Stephen     ----- Original Message ----- From: aifusionextreme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:31 PM Subject: LILO & Boot Magic install ? Hi   I jave succesfully installed mandrake 7.0 before but on smaller dirves. When trying to install it on a 14 GB with only 1 partition, everything appears fine, but once we reboot, instead of lilo I get a screen full of '01010101010101 ......' for ever or until reboot.   So I thought I would give Bootmagic a try ( comes with the macmillian release ), but it says something about not liking a partition that is greater than 1023 cylenders or something.   Can anybody help me ascertain what restrictions there are for these boot managers, what can be done to correct it, and are there alternatives ( free ones ) that dont have these retricitons ?   Thanks