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Re: After installing redhat6.1
We had few similar problems in the Linux Installation Party -- we couldn't
make LILO finding the Linux partition, or the Windows 98 partition on a
very few computers, so it simply just skipped them away going directly
into Windows 98, or Linux, so the (temporary) solution was to give him a
LILO diskette to manually boot Linux whenever he needs, and that way we
didn't have to mess with the MBR (because we just couldn't).
The problem was the HD, which was set by default (on the BIOS) to LBA
mode, giving it more than 1024 cylinders to count. LILO, LBA mode and more
than 1024 cylinders on the HD just don't work together.. check if you have
that problem.
Adir.
adir@vipe.technion.ac.il
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> I installed redhat6.1 on my system. After overcoming on the problems of
> having no bootable partition (using cfdisk from slackware install) I was
> happy to start using redhat.
> Anyway I faced against the following situations, looking for solutions
> for both:
>
> 1) I don't want to write the root's password every time i start KPPP.
>
> 2) I can't make LILO to boot my win98 partition (it's not for me!!! my
> lousy sisters need it)
> My partition table goes like this:
> /dev/hda1 - Linux
> /dev/hda(2, it think) - Linux swap
> /dev/hda(3 and 5 i think) - fat32 partitions
> and the important section:
> /dev/hdb1 - fat32 bootable partition which has windows and should get
> booted through LILO
>
> Noam
>
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