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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:

> But now I cannot boot linux with lilo because it is past the first 
> gigabyte (DOS used that up).  In fact on the 30GB drive I had to wall 
> off six gigabytes of bad sectors and lilo complained and would not even 
> install to floppy drive (1091 sectors, won't go past 1023).  On the 10GB 
> drive it installs to floppy disk but the boot process stops at LI , 
> probably because /boot is not in the first 1GB (it is in the third 
> gigabyte).

I can point you to some instructions I wrote up for installing grub from a 
grub boot floppy to your hard drive. At one time I could have talked you 
through it, but it's fairly complex and I've forgotten many of the 
details. But the description is fairly detailed and, if it's not 
completely apparent from those just how this is done, I could reread them 
and maybe provide additonal pointers. Grub doesn't have the cylinder limit 
lilo does, so it should boot any Linux located anywhere on those drives. 
Let me know.

James