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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, another time.  First I need to fix the svgalib libraries.  Loadlin 
was not the problem in this case so I will keep using it.
Sindi

> James
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