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Hi Sindi,


--- baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> >> 1024 sectors (about 1GB).
> >
> > Duh ... i knew that, but for some reason kept
> > thinking that it was OK if it was in the first
> > 1024 *cylinders*! I think that's been my problem
> > all along. Thanks.
> 
> You are right it IS cylinders but this may
> still be your problem. My 4.3GB has nearly
> 9000 cylinders so if you put linux in the
> last quarter of your 4GB, you are way beyond
> the 1024 cylinder limit.

Hmm ... well then, no, that's not why i'm
having a problem. My hard-drive only has
993 cylinders. Here's my fdisk -l again:

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/<#>fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 4099 MB, 4099866624 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes

   Device Boot  Start   End    Blocks   Id System
/dev/hda1   *       4   523   2096640    6 FAT16
/dev/hda2           1     3     12064+  12 Compaq diag
/dev/hda3         524   993   1895040    f Win95ExtLBA
/dev/hda5         524   725    814432+   b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6         726   969    983776+  83 Linux
/dev/hda7         970   993     96736+  82 Linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order
/<#>
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So now i'm still wondering why LILO doesn't boot
when i make hda6 my active partition.


-monz