first, a word from the sponsors... UPgrade to a more current distro...with all that big hard drive you will be glad you did. Now, what I did about this same problem. if you cut your C:\ drive to about 6 gigs you will be WELL within the cylinder limit of 7.0 version of LILO. This limit is removed in later versions of Mandrake. You can then create a /boot partititon within the limits when you install. You can get by with a 75 megbyte /boot and save every kernel you will ever compile right there, I bet some folks might tell you about 35 megs is plenty big for /boot. now the real question is ..can you cut C:\ without lost data. (so BACK UP FIRST!!!!) or you could buy PartitionMagic and BootMagic Or SystemCommander On Monday 30 July 2001 21:59, Denis wrote: > Hello newbies, > I have a problem of a big hard drive :) I have a big deck by the pool too.... so there.... damn i crack my self up > O.K. Seriously > I have a 20Gb hard drive. > I have 2 systems installed: Windows98 on first partition and > Linux Mandrake 7.0 on second. Linux partition is too far from the > begining of the disk, so lilo can't be installed. > > I want to use some boot manager in mbr (lilo is not the one of them). > Is it possible? Or is there any other comfortable way to boot Linux? > (Currently I use floppy) > > Thank you > > ____________________________________________________ > Denis
