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by **dan** » Tue, 18 Jul 2000 04:00:00

i have windows 98 on the "C:" drive (/dev/hda1)
i have rh 6.2 linux on the "first" scsi drive (/dev/sda1)
the scsi drive is 9Gbyte and has 1100+ cylinders
the root partition was created first, and is about half of the disk
so /boot should be below the 1024th cylinder ?
the boot disk (/dev/hda) is 13G, with a 6G partition with win98
on it
the bios has LBA on for the ide disk

i even tried downloading the latest version of lilo (lilo-21.4.4.tar)
and changing "linear" to "lba32" in /etc/lilo.conf

i am out of ideas

i don't have the right lilo.conf here to post, but i THINK it looks
something like this:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux-up

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda1

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux-up
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda1

other=/dev/hda1
label=dos

thanks for any help,
dan

by **Chem-R-U** » Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:00:00

> i have windows 98 on the "C:" drive (/dev/hda1)
> i have rh 6.2 linux on the "first" scsi drive (/dev/sda1)
> the scsi drive is 9Gbyte and has 1100+ cylinders
> the root partition was created first, and is about half of the disk
> so /boot should be below the 1024th cylinder ?
> the boot disk (/dev/hda) is 13G, with a 6G partition with win98
> on it
> the bios has LBA on for the ide disk

Typically the "LILO hangs on LI" problem is caused by a boot partition
that straddles the 1024 cylinder limit. By putting your boot directory
into a partition of its own and that is well within the 1024 cylinder
limit, this problem almost always clears up.

On this box, I have

DEVICE DIR
------------------
/dev/hda1 /boot

/dev/hda2 /

etc. etc.

This way, my boot partition is always contained within the 1024 limit,
regardless of what size the / partition may happen to be.

--

Chem-R-Us

by **James Staffor** » Sat, 05 Aug 2000 04:00:00

> > i have windows 98 on the "C:" drive (/dev/hda1)
> > i have rh 6.2 linux on the "first" scsi drive (/dev/sda1)
> > the scsi drive is 9Gbyte and has 1100+ cylinders
> > the root partition was created first, and is about half of the disk
> > so /boot should be below the 1024th cylinder ?
> > the boot disk (/dev/hda) is 13G, with a 6G partition with win98
> > on it
> > the bios has LBA on for the ide disk

> Typically the "LILO hangs on LI" problem is caused by a boot partition
> that straddles the 1024 cylinder limit. By putting your boot directory
> into a partition of its own and that is well within the 1024 cylinder
> limit, this problem almost always clears up.

> On this box, I have

> DEVICE DIR
> ------------------
> /dev/hda1 /boot

> /dev/hda2 /

> etc. etc.

> This way, my boot partition is always contained within the 1024 limit,
> regardless of what size the / partition may happen to be.

> --

> Chem-R-Us

Before you change anything try this first. Boot your computer with a
boot disk, at the prompt that asks for 'any parameters' type mount
root=dev/sda1, after the computer boots type lilo at the prompt. This
* at 'LI' happened to me once and this is how I fixed it.

jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."

-Anonymous

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