here's a little snippet from a mesage I posted a few weeks ago, i hope this helps...
You should set up Mandrake in expert mode and chose not to use lilo, but create a boot
disk.
Look around and find the latest lilo rpm at a mandrake ftp site then copy it to a
floppy (it
should fit). Boot with the boot disk into Mandrake, take out the boot disk and put in
the one
with lilo. Then open the floppy and click on the rpm. The next screen should be the
installer.
Install it. Now open lilo.conf, create any partitions that you know you have that
aren't
displayed. Also add on a line by itself "lba32" without the quotes somewhere BEFORE
you specify
any of the partitions (i put it right before the "default=whatever" command. I have
Mandrake on a
partition at the end of my 20G, and a 6G that is strictly a system backup)
I hope this helps. ( I think the latest release of lilo is lilo 0.21.4.3-1)
Good Luck
Dave
>From:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date:
> 22 Jun 2000 13:07:13 -0400
> To:
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>Subject:
> RE: [[newbie] Fw: LILO & Boot Magic install ?] new >explanation
>
>Or just go back into windows and turn bootmagic back on. >that did the trick for me.
>thanks,
>bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 11:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [[newbie] Fw: LILO & Boot Magic install ?] new
> explanation
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Thanks for the explanation.
> >
> > I bumped into the same problem a few days ago when
> installing Linux for
> > the first time.
> > I gave up solving the problem and have been booting from a floppy,
> > trusting that eventually I'd run across a solution (as I became more
> > familiar with Linux).
> >
> > My Mandrake 7.1 disks are on their way, so that should take
> care of it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > KC
>
> suggestion, Check an' see if you've got 'grub' installed. If
> not you can get the rpm at any 7.1 or cooker ftp site. Start
> reading 'info grub'. It's pretty straightforward, and you'll soon
> learn how to edit and setup it's lilo.conf-type file, 'menu.lst'
> You'll be that much ahead when you get 7.1
>
> I chose grub when I installed 7.1. At first I wished I had lilo
> back, but after a little reading in 'info grub', I'm glad I've got
> grub. It's easy to switch back'n forth. Just have 'lilo.conf'
> setup properly, and run '/sbin/lilo'. Conversely, have 'menu.lst'
> correct and run '/sbin/grub'. I'm not 100% positive, but I believe
> both the new lilo and grub, don't have the huge HDD/1024 cylinder
> qualms.
> --
> ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >
> > Charles A Edwards wrote:
> > >
> > > The most likely causes of this error actually has
> nothing to do with the
> > > MBR, where it is at, or the size of any partitions. If
> your hd was ever
> > > formatted using a manufacturer floppy ( with IBM it is
> EZDrive, Maxtor is
> > > MaxBlast and I am sure others also have their own). The
> program not only
> > > formatted your drive but it also flashed your BIOS to
> fool the hd size
> > > limitation and UDMA 66 incompatibility that older BIOSs
> had. If this is the
> > > case then neither LILO nor BootMagic can or will work as
> a bootloader on
> > > your system.
> > > SystemCommander will work and in Mandrake 7.1 GRUB
> will work.If neither
> > > of these 2 is an option then the only be able to boot
> Linux is from a
> > > floppy.
> > >
> > > Charles
>
>
