Hi bascule,
I tried removing the line you mentioned in lilo.conf and when I run lilo
it complained about having a large disk and such stuff and adviced I put
the line back so I did. Anyway thanks for answering.
regards.
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, bascule wrote:
>hi, i'm no expert but i noticed in your lilo.conf the line 'lba32'if
>this refers to what i think it does you might try leaving this out, i
>think it refers to some sort of hard drive optimisation and although it
>may only affect the booting of linux and have nothing to do with windows
>i can't see the harm in trying, if i'm talking rubbish i'm sure some
>soul will jump in and educate us both!
>
>bascule
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> just installed LM-7.1 in automatic installation mode, installation went smoothly
>(as implied by the term "automatic") but after I reboot I noticed that I had some
>problems ranging from desperate to minor. I have been reading previous archives for
>two days and after trying suggested methods and failing I decided to post this one.
>Thanks for your patience and answers.
>>
>> Before I installed LM-7.1 I had a system running Win98-SE and a harddisk (20 GB)
>with 1 primary (5 GB) partition and 3 logical drives in the extended partition (each
>about 5 GB). During the installation I removed the partition corresponding to the
>last logical drive and installed linux and swap partitions instead. Now after
>installation I have the following problems.
>>
>> 1. After I reboot the machine LILO asks which OS to boot, when I choose windows it
>just hangs while the HDD redlight remains on. Linux boots normal, though. Somebody
>suggested using DOS' fdisk /mbr but I can not boot the machine from startup floppy
>either. From linux I can access windows partitions and seems there is no data loss in
>them. In short, LM (or LILO) does not permit me in anyway to boot to win98. In
>desperation, I did a reinstall of LM but it did not work. This one is my most urgent
>problem. How can I bring my WIN98 back?
>>
>> I attached my lilo.conf file and the output from fdisk -l > zzz
>>
>> 2. Less urgent; I have a monitor LG 795FT Plus, video card Creative VANTA 16 MB,
>and sound card Creative Vibra 128. How can I get linux to detect those devices?
>Currently I can use 1280x1024 16bpp resolution but I know it is able to give true
>color even in higher resolutions. It detects sound card as es1371, videocard as RIVA
>TNT2 and monitor as SVGA high-frequency. How can I get linux to correctly recognize
>my hardware configuration?
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Ercan Solak
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Name: lilo.conf
>> lilo.conf Type: unspecified type (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM)
>> Encoding: BASE64
>> Description: lilo.conf
>>
>> Name: zzz
>> zzz Type: unspecified type (APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM)
>> Encoding: BASE64
>> Description: zzz
>
>
Ercan Solak
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