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@excite.com | Kernel 2.2.10+ Kansas City, Missouri, USA | K6-2 350 ________________________________________________________________ Get FREE voicemail, fax and email at http://voicemail.excite.com Talk online at http://voicechat.excite.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/