Um, Steve,
Somewhere along the way, your message got dated January 29th, 2000. You might want to
check your system date/time.
Russ
Steve Olson wrote:
> All:
>
> I'm admittedly a Linux Newbie, but nowhere near a newbie when it comes to
> machines and software OS'es... I date back to MS-DOS 3.3 Days.
>
> I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or
> Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is: Lilo won't
> load and BM won't properly boot the Linux Partition.
>
> I have a 20 gig Hard drive, with 6 for Linux and Swap partitions. LILO says
> can't be installed on a partitoin that goes beyond cylinder 1024... thats a laugh...
> 99% of the drives sold in the last five years have cylinders many times 1024...
>
> Boot Magic can't properly Identify the Mandrake OS partition, and won't Boot
> into it properly.
>
> Question: Is there a LILO alternative besides a boot disk or Loadlin, or is there
> some way to force bootmagic to ID the partiton right.
>
> Please respond to my email address as well as the List.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Olson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
