On Wed 20 March 2002 22:32, you (Bjarki Bjorgulfsson) wrote: > > Thanks for the help Mariusz, but I have one question for you, why is it > that My old RedHat 5.2 installs fine with the same partition setup? If this > is a BIOS problem, shouldn't it crash as well?
I don't know why, but "this worked for me (tm)". :-) How is 5.2 booting organized? Does it also use LILO? You say that you can _install_ RedHat 5.2 - are you able to _run_ it after? > If I create a boot partition it is going to mess up my Windows 98 partition > which I already have in the beginning of the drive, right? Right. I have used PartitionMagic to shift my FAT partition by a few cylinders, in order to create space for /boot. That's why I have something like this: (numbers are taken from the stars) Partition 1: cylinders 128-100000 (FAT32) Partition 2: cylinders 1-127 (/boot) Partition 3: the rest... (ext2 partitions: / , /home etc.) > Do you think Red > Hat 7.2 would work better, since it has GRUB? > I don't use 7.2 neither GRUB, so I cannot tell you anything, hovewer somewhere I recall to have read about that GRUB should handle such situation. Maybe GRUB is able to do some 'translations' to access far disk areas, while LILO cannot do that? Just wild guessing. LILO puts all the data it needs in bootsector. GRUB is able to read files on linux disk. So, I suppose GRUB has some more advanced handler for disks, while LILO remembers only from which sectors it has to load "something that is executable" --Mariusz -- Określ Swoje potrzeby - my znajdziemy ofertę za Ciebie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ] _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
