> Hello all:
> I will be installing Redhat 5.2 on an old 486 which has a very old Bios
> (Phoenix 1.0) and which doesn't recognize the Hard Drive I have
> installed unless I use Ontrack Disk Manager (I assume this "lives" in
> the MBR) - this fools the system into recognizing disk space beyond what
> the Bios recognizes.
> The only operating system which will reside on this machine will be
> linux. Does anyone know if I need to use LILO also (which I believe also
> "lives" in the MBR) and if they can co-exist?
> Any help would be most appreciated.
> Jim
When you install Linux with the boot disk make sure that you wait
for the disk manager and press on the bar for booting the diskette
when told to do so. What you have to make sure is follow the
instructions as you would do for OS/2. Meaning that you don't enable
that bios guard which prohibits you from doing anything on the
hard disk that it doesn't want you to do. You just have to make darn
sure that you don't mess up the disk. The guard is to make it idiot
proof but it only works with dos.
Since the partition will the only active one I fail to see why you
need to put lilo on the mbr. It should work with lilo on the root of
the partition.
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