Tried this and still get the same message: Loading LinuxEBDA too big. I guess we'll just try switching to grub and see what happens
Thanks > 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 On Thursday 14 November 2002 03:36 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > 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
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