[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I have been getting errors galore ever since I tried to install LILO. The first
> time I attempted to install it, I got "an error has occured" message and
> skipped over it. The 2nd time I tried to isntall it I got the same. So I
> checked off the linear option in the install and LILO installed without giving
> me any error messages. Now my computer locks up every time it boots from the
> main drive. LILO begins to execute and displays the "LI" in LILO but then just
> freezes. So now I am stuck with a Linux boot disk, a Linux partition and a swop
> partition. I used the boot disk to boot into linux and configured my Windows 98
> drive as hda and my Linux drive as hda5 and tried various other LILO
> configurations, all that froze in the same manner as before. I also got error
> logs in the LINUXCONS that said something about a 1024 limit. I want my
> computer to just boot into windows now and totally remove the cursed LILO
> program from my master boot. I tried to remove LILO from my master boot so I
> went into the RPM icon in KDE and found LILO and clicked on uninstall. Now when
> I tried to boot from my hard drive again I still got the frozen LILO screen
> after I uninstaled it ! So now what should I do ??? I want to go back to my
> old confirgureation witrhout LILO and just use the boot disk to boot into Linux
> otherwise just have it go straight to Win98. How do I remove LILO from the
> master boot from Linux without the LILO RPM package. Any help is much
> appreciated. William
Hi, William,
The problem may be that your /boot is not installed entirely below
cylinder 1024. If you haven't created anything valuable on your Linux
partitions, I would reinstall. Specify separate partitions for /boot
and /, making sure that the entire /boot partition is below cylinder
1024. Good luck,
Hidong
