The lastest versions of LILO will be more than happy to boot beyond the 1024
barrier.
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Eclectic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
> You probably have NTFS on your NT4 system partition which LM would use to
> install Lilo. I mean your C drive
> should be a fat16 partition (that you could use for W95 or W98) then D
drive
> can use NT4 with NTFS if you want,
> and last LM and Lilo will be happy to coexist with these two.
> Use PQ magic to create 3 partitions from the beginning of
> of your HD:
> fisrt your Fat
> 2nd your swap and linux (LM won't boot if too far, >1024 cylinder)
> 3rd your NT4 partition.
> Good Luck. Let me if it works for you.
> ========================================
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 9:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
>
>
> > Did you do a "fdisk /mbr" to clean to boot sector?
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Long story short...tried to dualboot LM 7.2 with NT4. Really
> messed
> > > up! Now all I get is "grub" with a command prompt after it. Tried
fdisk
> and
> > > format to no avail. Just want to install LM 7.2 on clean hdd. Can any
> one
> > > please give me some info? VERY new to Linux.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> > >
> > >
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