[ILUG] LILO with redhat 6.1

[Ronny Bangsund]

--- Alan Murphy <mande at indigo.ie> wrote:
> Im trying to install redhat 6.1 with pain :(
> I use a boot loader called boot magic which comes with
> partition magic 5
> So i decided to put LILO on the first sector of my linux
> partition .
You've done all correctly so far; I've used v4.0 of Partition
Magic, and it's worked nicely, except for the fact that it
rewrote the type of each of my Linux partition...

> anwway i got an error there saying
> that
> hdc1 is not on the first disk.
> and some error to do with cylinders
> something like 1057 > 1023
> and lilo did not install.
Do you have a boot disk? If so, it should be possible to start
from that, then read the LILO docs. I had similar problems
with LILO 20 on an 8GB drive, but that was AFTER I had already
had it working several times with Slackware, RedHat and other
distributions. Then it myesteriously worked after I fiddled
with the lilo.conf.

> Its a 10 gig hard drive
> is it possible that linux does not support ;arge hard
> drives?
My HD reports 1027 cylinders, but as long as /boot resides
within the first 1024, it's not going to be a problem.
(You *do* have /boot early on the drive, right?)

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