Hi, I am having a problem getting Lilo to work on my machine. I have a motherboard with an old 1996 bios that doesn't support hard disks larger than 8.4 gig. Maxtor's MaxBlast disk manger software provides an extension to the bios code to allow my 20 gig drive to work. I have tried to install Mandrake 8.1 several times always with the same result: When I reboot, LIL is printed to the screen then it hangs.
When I first installed MaxBlast, I allowed it to partition the drive. When I tried to install Linux the disk partitioning software got confused and trashed the whole partition table. I thought that perhaps Linux didn't like the way MaxBlast created the partitions so I used a Win98 boot disk and fdisk to create the two Windows partitions. Tried to install Linux again today and still get the LIL thing. Is there a way around this? Thanks, Larry
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