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Annie,

Post your lilo.conf.

Dennis

RogerB wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:30:10 GMT, Bit Twister
> <reply_this_article@this_news.group> wrote:
> >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.
> >
>         When you format your second drive try
> dividing into /boot (20MEG) and the rest for swap.
> Then put the root partition / on the large drive.
> Lilo would have boot=dev/hdb or whatever the
> drive is (second controler would be hdc or hdd)
> and root=/dev/hdax where x is your partition number.
>
> >
> >--
> >The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
> >If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
> >Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
> >Do a,  man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.