LILO

[Cory Spitz]

Thank you everyone,

I was able to successfully install LILO with my existing partition
situation.  I had to change the 'config' line of the /etc/lilo.conf file
to 'lba32'.  That seemed to fix the problem.

This is great because I have both LILO installed on the MBR (/dev/hda),
and it can boot win95 (/dev/hda1) and linux (/dev/hda8), where the linux
root and /boot is clearly past the 1024 cylinder boundry.  Thanks!!!!

Just for the record, here is my config:

[root@spitzcor lilo-21.4.2]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3322 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       831   6674976    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2           832      3322  20008957+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           832      1661   6666943+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6          1662      2491   6666943+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7          2492      2875   3084448+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8   *      2876      3306   3461976   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          3307      3322    128488+  82  Linux swap

[root@spitzcor spitzcor]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
# LILO configuration created by QuickInst 21  Sat Apr 29 14:50:58 EDT 2000

boot = /dev/hda
lba32           # CHANGED FROM 'compact'
delay = 5
vga = normal    # force sane state
root = /dev/hda8
image = /boot/vmlinuz
  label = linux
other = /dev/hda1
  table = /dev/hda
  label = win95



On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Cory Spitz wrote:

> Thanks.  Sorry I left off the /etc/lilo.conf file.  Here you go:
> 
> [root@spitzcor spitzcor]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> # LILO configuration created by QuickInst 21  Sat Apr 29 14:50:58 EDT
> 2000
> 
> boot = /dev/hda
> compact
> delay = 5	# optional, for systems that boot very quickly
> vga = normal	# force sane state
> root = current	# use "current" root
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
>   label = linux
> other = /dev/hda1
>   table = /dev/hda
>   label = win95
> 
> And I've already run /sbin/lilo manually, same problem.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> -Cory
> 
> Alan Garrison wrote:
> > 
> > Cory Spitz wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm a linux newbie and just got myself setup with Linux-Mandrake 7.0.  I
> > > can only boot the system from a floppy becuause I can't seem to get LILO
> > > installed properly.
> > 
> > Just a few thoughts, not presented in any particular order:
> > 1.  You might want to post the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf file.
> > 2.  Try running the /sbin/lilo command manually after checking
> > the above config file.
> > 3.  Even if you can't get LILO working, you may be able to still
> > boot Linux via LOADLIN.
> > 4.  Check out the hdparam command (see man page) for more hard drive
> > info.
> 
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