[BL] LILO challenge
baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org
baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org
Tue Apr 29 10:24:23 EDT 2008
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
>> Slackware 7.1 uses lilo 21.4 so I do not need to compile it.
>
> I was unable to boot with LILO when linux was not in the first 1024
> cylinders, from a suspect drive and suspect computer. LI and it stopped.
>
> To fix the 1024 cylinder limit problems, I used Slackware 7.1 lilo and
> typed at the top of lilo.conf
>
> lba32
>
> then copied all of /boot to /hda1/bl2 and changed /boot to /hda1/bl2 in
> lilo.conf, so these would be in the first 1024 cylinders.
BL3 lilo might also work if you copy the files to the DOS partition,
without the lba32.
Sindi
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