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> > Hmm.. i did this about a year ago.  Hope i still remember how to do it
..
> > properly.  Anyway, i think this is what i did.
>
> > I made sure that everything is in the first 1024 cylinders of the hard
> > drive, due to the use of old lilo.
>
> Well, the partitions you have are basically the same way I'm having - with
> the exception that my first linux partition (/boot) is waaaay beyond the
> 1024 limit. Somewhere was said that newer lilo's can boot beyond the limit
> - but I didn't check that is it included in RH7...

it is.
(version 21.4.3 and above I think)
But your BIOS must support it too.
But if your system isn't over 3 years old, it probably will.

> BTW: how much is 1k cylinders in GB's? Or does it depend on HD in use?
> 8 Gigs?

depends on the settings
Cylinders(=1024)*Heads*Sectors*512=Number_of_bytes

>
> > Well, i have not tested lilo much, so i can't really say.  Most of the
time,
> > i just made sure that my boot partition is above 1024.
>                                              -----
> You mean below?

He must have meant that indeed.

> I think my problems are all because of having about 24 Gigs of Fat32
> -partitions in beginning of drive. And, I'm having the drive on HPT370
> conroller (KT7-RAID)

don't know about RAID, but 24 GIG will be way beyond 1024 indeed.

If you would *show* your lilo.conf and your partitiontables,
we would perhaps be able to help.

> Perhaps I try not to get blood out of my nose (a finnish way of saying)
> and create a 16-meg /boot -partition at the beginning of the drive.

it would probably be the easiest solution, if you can do this.

Eric