LILO and Windows

[Graeme everton]

Hello,

I have a Pentium III 450 128mb RAM with a seagate 17gb IDE hard disk.
I first installed win95C with an 8gb partition.
then setup red hat linux 6.0, setup fine but then LILO refused to install.
so wiped win95 and made drive blank and started another linux install. This
time setup linux with 1gb as /, 2gb as /home, 2gb as /var and 2gb as /usr.
Installed linux Ok and lilo worked, then setup win95 with the remaining
9gb. LILO then refused to try to boot windows. It said that I had an extra
partition (hda8) with was invalid (it was using cylinders which didn't
exist, drive has 2096 cyl and it used cyl 15185 and above!). It then
proceeded to completly kill my MBR and prevent fdisk (windows and linux)
from being able to do anything.
anyone have any ideas?

many thanks

Graeme Everton

[Norman Levin]

Graeme everton wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Pentium III 450 128mb RAM with a seagate 17gb IDE hard disk.
> I first installed win95C with an 8gb partition.
> then setup red hat linux 6.0, setup fine but then LILO refused to install.
> so wiped win95 and made drive blank and started another linux install. This
> time setup linux with 1gb as /, 2gb as /home, 2gb as /var and 2gb as /usr.
> Installed linux Ok and lilo worked, then setup win95 with the remaining
> 9gb.

Windows needs to be in a physical partition. Needs to be within first
4 gig of start of disk. You need to lay out your partitions again.

LILO then refused to try to boot windows. It said that I had an extra
> partition (hda8) with was invalid (it was using cylinders which didn't
> exist, drive has 2096 cyl and it used cyl 15185 and above!). It then
> proceeded to completly kill my MBR and prevent fdisk (windows and linux)
> from being able to do anything.
> anyone have any ideas?
>
> many thanks
>
> Graeme Everton

--
Norman Levin
vm/dynAmIX inc.

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>
>Windows needs to be in a physical partition. Needs to be within first
>4 gig of start of disk. You need to lay out your partitions again.
>
>

according to bootmanager docs, windows has to be within the first 8
gigs

[Tom Williams]

In article <01bef9f4$aec90a60$d542...@eepc-ge.bath.ac.uk>,

"Graeme everton" <ee...@bath.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Pentium III 450 128mb RAM with a seagate 17gb IDE hard disk.
> I first installed win95C with an 8gb partition.
> then setup red hat linux 6.0, setup fine but then LILO refused to
install.
> so wiped win95 and made drive blank and started another linux install.
This
> time setup linux with 1gb as /, 2gb as /home, 2gb as /var and 2gb as
/usr.
> Installed linux Ok and lilo worked, then setup win95 with the
remaining

> 9gb. LILO then refused to try to boot windows. It said that I had an

extra
> partition (hda8) with was invalid (it was using cylinders which didn't
> exist, drive has 2096 cyl and it used cyl 15185 and above!). It then
> proceeded to completly kill my MBR and prevent fdisk (windows and
linux)
> from being able to do anything.
> anyone have any ideas?
>
> many thanks
>
> Graeme Everton
>
>

In addition to the otehr replies to this message, you might have to pass
kernel parameters to make sure the proper hard geometry is being used.
If LILO is having problems with the number of cylinders you might have
to pass kernel parameters specifying other hard drive geometry that LILO
can understand. You should read the LILO HOW-TO's to learn about LILO
deficiencies.

Peace.....

Tom

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