Re: [newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?
You will want to use grub. I am sure there must be an rpm for it. It comes with mdk 8.0 and maybe previous versions. You might find it at rpmfind.net or see this link. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html Geof. 8 On Monday 30 July 2001 06:59 pm, Denis wrote: Hello newbies, I have a problem of a big hard drive :) O.K. Seriously I have a 20Gb hard drive. I have 2 systems installed: Windows98 on first partition and Linux Mandrake 7.0 on second. Linux partition is too far from the begining of the disk, so lilo can't be installed. I want to use some boot manager in mbr (lilo is not the one of them). Is it possible? Or is there any other comfortable way to boot Linux? (Currently I use floppy) Thank you Denis
Re: [newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?
Hello, Yes it is. All new versions (I don't remember as of which) support greater than 1024. J On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Geof Steichen wrote: You will want to use grub. I am sure there must be an rpm for it. It comes with mdk 8.0 and maybe previous versions. You might find it at rpmfind.net or see this link. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html Geof. 8 On Monday 30 July 2001 06:59 pm, Denis wrote: Hello newbies, I have a problem of a big hard drive :) O.K. Seriously I have a 20Gb hard drive. I have 2 systems installed: Windows98 on first partition and Linux Mandrake 7.0 on second. Linux partition is too far from the begining of the disk, so lilo can't be installed. I want to use some boot manager in mbr (lilo is not the one of them). Is it possible? Or is there any other comfortable way to boot Linux? (Currently I use floppy) Thank you Denis
Re: [newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?
first, a word from the sponsors... UPgrade to a more current distro...with all that big hard drive you will be glad you did. Now, what I did about this same problem. if you cut your C:\ drive to about 6 gigs you will be WELL within the cylinder limit of 7.0 version of LILO. This limit is removed in later versions of Mandrake. You can then create a /boot partititon within the limits when you install. You can get by with a 75 megbyte /boot and save every kernel you will ever compile right there, I bet some folks might tell you about 35 megs is plenty big for /boot. now the real question is ..can you cut C:\ without lost data. (so BACK UP FIRST) or you could buy PartitionMagic and BootMagic Or SystemCommander On Monday 30 July 2001 21:59, Denis wrote: Hello newbies, I have a problem of a big hard drive :) I have a big deck by the pool too so there damn i crack my self up O.K. Seriously I have a 20Gb hard drive. I have 2 systems installed: Windows98 on first partition and Linux Mandrake 7.0 on second. Linux partition is too far from the begining of the disk, so lilo can't be installed. I want to use some boot manager in mbr (lilo is not the one of them). Is it possible? Or is there any other comfortable way to boot Linux? (Currently I use floppy) Thank you Denis
[newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?
Hello newbies, I have a problem of a big hard drive :) O.K. Seriously I have a 20Gb hard drive. I have 2 systems installed: Windows98 on first partition and Linux Mandrake 7.0 on second. Linux partition is too far from the begining of the disk, so lilo can't be installed. I want to use some boot manager in mbr (lilo is not the one of them). Is it possible? Or is there any other comfortable way to boot Linux? (Currently I use floppy) Thank you Denis
