a few things

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, this is correct.
I speak from personal experience.
You can get arround by creating a root partition from which lilo can boot.
This partition absolutely cannot exceed the maxium boot drive size required by your bios.
Greg


On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:54:57AM -0700, Holmes, Steve wrote:
> I wonder if your hard disk is too big.  I mean the disk being too large for
> normal booting  Windows gets around it with kludges and Linux (after booting
> can get around some of those issues without special kludges.  I think lilo
> requires a starting address low enough to boot properly.
> 
> Take a look at ide.txt in /usr/src/linux/Documentation for a brief
> explanation of some of this hard disk geometry stuff.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deedra Waters [mailto:dmwaters at tampabay.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:25 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: a few things
> 
> 
> we tried this and that didn't work. So we tried installing grub instead...
> but then we got the error with windows. still not sure what we're missing.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:02 AM
> Subject: Re: a few things
> 
> 
> > RE-install lilo. When it comes to the boot menu, pressing tab will give
> > you the options. You must type in any option other then the
> > default. The default will be marked with an astrick. You can change the
> > default by editing lilo.conf found in /etc then running lilo from a
> > command prompt.
> >
> > =======
> > Kirk Wood
> > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> >
> > The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open.
> > If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
> >
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