Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:02:42 -0500, Chris wrote:

> I remember seeing the explanation for this somewhere but for the life of
me can't find it again.  I searched through the list archive but couldn't
locate anything.

  Sounds like you just need to re-configure and re-run lilo.

> I have (or want) SuSE and Windows 98 on the same machine using LILO to
boot both.  I did a fresh install of 6.2 and thought I setup LILO the same
as I had it in 6.1.  Now, when the computer boots, all I get is "LI" and
then it locks.  If I remember right this has something to do the 1024
cylinder limit.  Is this correct and could someone please expand on this
further?

  I don't know if this is what your problem is, but due to current
restrictions, you must have your kernel below the 1024 cylinder mark.  The
best way to ensure this is to have a small (4-8 meg, max) `boot' partition
on your hard drive, mounted on /boot of the Linux system.  If I were at
home, I'd send you an actual file, but my 10gig partition table looks
roughly like:

  /dev/hda1     8megs  /boot  ext2
  /dev/hda2   128megs  /swap  swap
  /dev/hda3    <2gigs  /win   fat32 (Win98)
  /dev/hda4    <8gigs  /      ext2  (SuSE)

  After the Linux system is up and running in /dev/hda4, install Windows.
After Windows is running use the boot disk to start the installed Linux
system, run YaST, set up lilo on the MBR, and you'll be fine.  Don't forget
to create a SuSE Rescue disk and a Win98 EBD, just in case.  Each will need
its own DOS-format HD floppy.

-=|JP|=-  (Resident GNUbie)

Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.2
jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx  | Kernel 2.2.10+
Kansas City, Missouri, USA | K6-2 350

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