🚀 go-pugleaf

|>I have two physical IDE drives - 1) WD 1 Gb - 600 Mb primary DOS
|>					    - 400 Mb extended DOS
|>				 2) WD 540 Mb - 450 linux native
|>					      - 90 linux swap
|>I am trying to install LILO but keep getting 'LI' and the system hangs.
|>  I THINK that I have tried most of the installation methods
|>  outlined in the DRx.LINUX book with no success.
|>
|>I can boot from a floppy with no troubles.
|
|
|thats cos yer HDs have > 1024 cylinders. if yer read the installation docs, it
|tells yer that LILO has probs with these kinda HDs. 
|Solution:
|1) yer can specify the number of cylinders(in CMOS) to be 1024(and lose a
|couple of megs)
|2) read the docs on the more complicated way.

I think it's more complicated than that. Linux is on the 540 Mb disk
and if his swap is at the end of the disk then the root partition falls
under the 1024 mark. If not, there is a tiny, but non-zero, chance that
the kernel blocks are over the mark.  I think (2) is the thing to do
here.