i had the same problem you have rigth now.. but i have 2 HD and with change
the IDE cable from the windows (primary master ) to Linux ( secondary
slave) and reinstall the problem was fixed... but it sounds like you have
only 1 HD .. so you have to move your /boot partition somewhere between the
first 1024 clinders of your HD in order to LILO wor perfectly..... you have
to put lilo in your MBR no matter if its mean to have LILO in your windows
partition..... because you can boot either windows or linux from there...
so take the appropiate steps to point your LILO.conf to boot from hdx (
whatever your MBR will be ) and in the lilo options add the one to boot
/windows ( or whatever your /dev name is... )
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Ritchie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 10:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] booting to a "high" Mandrake?
I've finally got LM7(.0) installed on my PC (yippee!)
However, because I chose to install it in the last 5G of a 20G disc
(my only drive), DrakX installation of LILO went woozy - essentially,
because LILO can't see beyond the 1024th cylinder. It still offered
to put LILO in the MBR, but I was wary - I don't want to lose the
Win98 installation on the front of the disc - so opted against this.
This means that I can only start Linux from the boot disc, which takes
*ages*!
Somewhere within DrakConf, I find an option to move lilo.conf, and the
help file talks about the advantages of moving lilo (which I presume
doesn't mean just lilo.conf?) to the low end of the disc.
Since linux can see the front 3/4 of my disc (as /mnt/dos), I presume
that I *could* move it there. Is it really as simple as changing the
boot drive (currently /dev/fd0) to /dev/hde1 (IIRC, that's where
/mnt/dos is) and relocating lilo.conf (currently /etc/lilo.conf) to
/mnt/dos/etc/lilo.conf (or similar)?
I would have expected that the kernel would have to be moved there too
- or does DrakConf do that behind the scenes?
And then, assuming that hurdle can be crossed, how can I set things up
so that I *can* use lilo to boot into either Windoze (as default) or
Linux?
There's a tiny complication in that I have a Promise Ultra66 IDE, but
it looks like DrakX has catered for this in lilo.conf.
I tried to make another boot disc following instructions in the lilo
config help mentioned above; this loads much faster, but
only to fall over with a kernel panic. I suspect this is because it
doesn't use lilo, so doesn't pick up the "ide2=0xmmm,0xnnn" setting
that lilo uses when booting linux. Is there any way to fix *that*?
[And I haven't even *begun* to worry about how to get my scanner (an
ancient Microtek Phantom C200) working, or my soundcard (SB Live!
Value), or a better driver for my DeskJet 850C, how to make sure I'm
not driving my Gateway VX700 monitor to an early grave, ...! Looks
like linux is a lot of work to install - but I think it's going to be
worth it!]
Thanks,
Brian
