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. This will allow lilo to understand the 20G hard
drive (I haave the exact same setup, except Mandrake is on a partition at the end of
my 20G, and the 6G 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: "Eric MC DECLERCK" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:50:25 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
When setup LILO did yu select also DOS ??
If not resetup LILO with lilo.conf and run lilo.
Take a look at info or man lilo. Or at page 275 of your User Guide and
Reference Manual.
If it don't help you can utilise loadlin.
Eric MC
-Original Message-
From: Lance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 6:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] trouble with 7.0 deluxe install and lilo
can somebody please help me with the problem below in my original post?
thanks.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lance wrote:
hi everyone,
i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble
with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my
machine with windows 2000 professional on a 20gig, and a master-slaved
6gig i want to run mandrake on. i start the install by booting
off the cd,
setup my linux partitions automatically and go through the rest of the
install ok. i install lilo to the mbr and configure X and it tells me to
restart. i remove the boot disk and cdrom, restart, and all i get are
"cascading" 1's and 0's...i power down, start up with the boot
disk i made
and lilo gives me *no* option for my windows partition that sits on the
other hard drive. i get into linux/kde with the floppy boot disk and add
the win partition to lilo in drakconf and try rebooting without the
bootdisk and i get 1's and 0's again. if i start with the
bootdisk i'm ok,
but i cannot choose to boot into windows 2000. at this point i got a
little freaked out and had to overwrite my mbr to get access to windows
again, and have been hesitant to go any further with mandrake since i've
got 10 gigs of critical data on my windows 2000 drive/partition that i
must be able to acesss at all times for work. my system specs are 300mhz
AMD, 128 ram, 3dfx voodoo 2000, and on-board crystal pnp sound. i should
also note that i have norton antivirus2000 installed on windows, and
i'm wondering if maybe that is keeping lilo from writing itself to the
mbr? i am a former suse user and am new to mandrake/red hat, so any help
with this would be greatly appreciated! really looking forward to going
back to linux after a 6 month hiatus...many thanks!
best regards,
lance
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