Edward, I installed lilo, and used the root superblock option, so as I can use a third party o/s loader to load up my systems (system commander 7). I have had the system installed previously, with linux red hat 8.0, mandrake to have a look at it, windows xp, windows 98. All four operating systems worked no problems. I have had just windows xp and red hat 8.0 working no problems. Now nothing I do gets them working. I even tried grub to see it it could just get the two working, but with no success. Installing rh8 using grub and using the mbr option did not work either. Something suss. In regard to not being able to boot if the /boot partition is not in a certain area of the disk, I think a lot of bios don't read past the first 1024 sectors on the drive when looking to boot, but I have not had this problem prior to the other day.
really getting buggered off with this computer. regards Greg On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 17:12, Edward Dekkers wrote: > > I have to re-install, how do I get it all to work. When selecting > > partitions and the such, linux actually gives me a message saying there > > may be a problem with the way the system is set up and accessing /boot, > > and strongly reccomends me to create a boot disk due to possible > > problems loading into linux. > > RedHat gave me that warning too, however I had no problems. > > I THINK it's related to LILO. Fact is, LILO couldn't read /boot partitions > past a certain area of the disk (or something to that effect). > > Even though I got that warning, I'm using GRUB, and have no problems. > > Try using grub. > > Why install LILO anyway? I'm not sure with which version GRUB came out, but > I know for a fact that 7.2, 7.3 and 8 have grub as the default........ > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services P/L > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
