[olug] LILO trouble

[Nick Walter]

Hmmm, you didn't mention which distribution of Linux you are using, so I
can't give installer-specific advice.  What I usually do to avoid problems
like this with Red Hat Linux is a /boot partition.  I make sure that's the
first partiton created and right at the front of the drive.  Make sure Lilo
and the kernel are in that partition and they should be within your cylinder
limit.  Then you can have the rest of your partitions spread across the rest
of the drive.

If you are willing to switch distros or download additional components, I'd
recommend using GRUB instead of LILO.  GRUB is smarter than LILO and not as
constrained.

Nick Walter


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary" <mescie at cox.net>
To: "olug" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 1:59 AM
Subject: [olug] LILO trouble


I have 2 HDD's.A 5 Gig windows (master) and a 20 Gig linux (secondary) with
a 150 MB / partition a 250 Mb /home and a 250 Mb /var partition a 8.5 Gig
/usr partition and 127 Mb swap partition.My problem is that LILO won't
appear at all because it's not within the 1023 cylinder limit,my cylinder is
set at 2034.I've used this setup before and LILO liked it just fine.I've
reinstalled linux 3 times in 7 days trying to get LILO to work,with no luck
of course.I've tried to set my cylinder to 1023 and lower in my BIOS but
when I do the total HDD size  decreases dramatically to like 5 Gig (from 20
Gig).Is there another was to change my cylinder situation?


                Thank you,Gary




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