On Thursday 14 November 2002 03:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 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...
It is a MBR problem, put the install CD1 in and hit the F1 key then at the control prompt type "rescue" then you should get a interface with "re-install bootloader" as an option. Hit that and reboot and you should get your lilo boot back with the option to boot linux or M$. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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