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Hi fx, ---- fx Fraipont wrote:
I have just installed SuSE on a friend's computer (IBM UDMA 13gb). This is the problem I have: the drive is identified in Linux as hdex, linux is on hde5, and lilo refuses to install on the MBR because it isn't hda. (Hda is the atapi cdrom on this computer).
I do not know what you mean by "hdex", have you got more disks than related?? Do you know that Linux supports till 5 primary partitions?? More if extended.
The Hd is partitioned like this 2gb win, 2 gb linux (thus safely under the 1024 cylinder limit), 128mb swap, 7gb win, the rest linux..
Is there a solution other than installing lilo on a floppy, which is the only thing i can get to work at the moment. i'm sure ther is...
Best that you change disk+CD IDE bus connections, because i see you have not get any SCSI disks [aka sdax]. Also it is not needed for CD boot bios setup. Connect [IBM UDMA 13gb] disk as master on IDE1, and CD-Rom as master also on IDE2. This way the atapi cdrom will appear as hdb, while the hard disk will do as hda. I would not recommend you to put CD-Rom as slave on IDE1, best do not do it. If it is the windoze part as NTFS it would not harm. Also as of regular windoze, hd will always appear as c: , and cd will do as d:.
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