Re: Dual boot question

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From: Bit Twister
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:30

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On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:44:38 -0600, Arnie Owen wrote:

> System is Athlon 800, Seagate 20GB HDD IDE (ATA66), 512Mb RAM, 32Mb
> Geforce2 MX Video.  Not a year old yet.
> 
> Have already tried to install using LILO thing, about 10 attempts using
> Turbo Linux 6.0 (boxed version).
> I have also now installed Partition manager and have tried to install by
> moving the Linux boot partition right to start of HDD (to get around
> 1024 cyl or 2Gb problem), still no joy.  Would like to avoid using BIOS
> to select boot setting if poss, already have BootMagic and that doesn't
> help (even though it saw the Linux partition and saw that it was
> bootable).

My /etc/lilo.conf has
lba32
which lets me boot past the 1024 cyl point.


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