hi, i'm no expert but i noticed in your lilo.conf the line 'lba32'if
this refers to what i think it does you might try leaving this out, i
think it refers to some sort of hard drive optimisation and although it
may only affect the booting of linux and have nothing to do with windows
i can't see the harm in trying, if i'm talking rubbish i'm sure some
soul will jump in and educate us both!
bascule
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>
> Hello,
>
> just installed LM-7.1 in automatic installation mode, installation went smoothly (as
>implied by the term "automatic") but after I reboot I noticed that I had some
>problems ranging from desperate to minor. I have been reading previous archives for
>two days and after trying suggested methods and failing I decided to post this one.
>Thanks for your patience and answers.
>
> Before I installed LM-7.1 I had a system running Win98-SE and a harddisk (20 GB)
>with 1 primary (5 GB) partition and 3 logical drives in the extended partition (each
>about 5 GB). During the installation I removed the partition corresponding to the
>last logical drive and installed linux and swap partitions instead. Now after
>installation I have the following problems.
>
> 1. After I reboot the machine LILO asks which OS to boot, when I choose windows it
>just hangs while the HDD redlight remains on. Linux boots normal, though. Somebody
>suggested using DOS' fdisk /mbr but I can not boot the machine from startup floppy
>either. From linux I can access windows partitions and seems there is no data loss in
>them. In short, LM (or LILO) does not permit me in anyway to boot to win98. In
>desperation, I did a reinstall of LM but it did not work. This one is my most urgent
>problem. How can I bring my WIN98 back?
>
> I attached my lilo.conf file and the output from fdisk -l > zzz
>
> 2. Less urgent; I have a monitor LG 795FT Plus, video card Creative VANTA 16 MB, and
>sound card Creative Vibra 128. How can I get linux to detect those devices? Currently
>I can use 1280x1024 16bpp resolution but I know it is able to give true color even in
>higher resolutions. It detects sound card as es1371, videocard as RIVA TNT2 and
>monitor as SVGA high-frequency. How can I get linux to correctly recognize my
>hardware configuration?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Ercan Solak
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: lilo.conf
> lilo.conf Type: unspecified type (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM)
> Encoding: BASE64
> Description: lilo.conf
>
> Name: zzz
> zzz Type: unspecified type (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM)
> Encoding: BASE64
> Description: zzz
