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Re: Red Hat 7.0 & Lilo

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From: Ari
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 13:31
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As I'm not using one of my linux OSes at the moment (so no access to the man
files), and probably won't be rebooting until well after you read this, what
does the v switch do?

Ari


"Eric" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message
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> > When I hit the finish button of the intallation,  and on shutdown
process
> I
> > got a warning saying that the partition is larger than 1024 Cylinder?
> > When I reboot the computer it say it can't find operating system to
> oot.( I
> > had linux partition as active).
>
> Where did you put LILO?
> put it in the MBR, or make the win2k partition active again, and boot
> through
> the NT bootloader.
>
> And to get rid of the 1024 cyl. problem:
>
> boot from the bootfloppy you made, change the "linear" in /etc/lilo.conf
to
> "lba32"
> run `/sbin/lilo -v` and reboot. The RH installer should have done this for
> you, but
> appearantly it failed at doing so.
>
> > Note:  with my other PC that has 4GB I can partition it (2GB each) to
boot
> > between Windows 2000 server and Linux without a problem.
>
> Then you don't cross the 1024 th cylinder there.
>
> > Any help is much appreciated and you can reply to ungtu@hotmail.com or
> > tung@connect.com.au.
>
> you post here, you read here.
>
> Eric
>
>
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