On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 07:20, Michael wrote: > My wife just installed Mandrake 9.0, dual boot, on her Win 98 box. After the > install, which went fine, everytime she tries to boot from the harddrive she > gets an error message saying EBDA too big, and it fails. When she boots from > the floppy, it works fine. Her system has a 6Gb harddrive with an extended > 80Gb drive, which is operated through the BIOS and which Mandrake did > recognize during the install. > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to appraoch this? > > Michael > That's a strange one - but has she tried re-running lilo from a command line after booting into linux? That would be the first shot to take...
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