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RE: How do I partition my hard drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Mann)
Mon Mar 31 13:32:31 1997
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 02:18:20 +0800 (HKT)
From: Jon Mann <jedman@sds.com.hk>
To: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
cc: Ed Fletcher <efletch@ampsc.com>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970331115759.11254A-100000@kovalevskaya>
Robert,
Read the Lilo documentation. Sometimes found on /usr/src/lilo and other
wise download the file on sunsite
/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/lilo.18.tar.gz
It'll tell you everything you need to know and more! It is very very well
documented.
yours,
Jon J. E. Mann
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Robert Johannes wrote:
> Thanks Ed, talking about Lilo, I actually once had trouble getting lilo to
> boot when I was running only linux on the ide drive which is 2.1 gigs. I
> hear that Lilo has trouble booting when it gets physically located beyond
> the 1024th cylinder?!? Now I have no problem with it, because the hard
> drive is equally divided between linux and dos. But since I'll be going
> back to the original setup where linux occupies the entire drive, how do I
> circumnavigate past this limitation of lilo? Lilo could only show
> something like this: LI and ofcourse hangs. I have read about what those
> segments of the word "LILO" mean, in terms of what went wrong, but that
> didn't help me solve the problem. Any suggestions on how to evade that?
>
> Regards
> robert
>
>
> > You should have no problems running your system with this configuration. Linux
> > will put Lilo onto the mbr of the ide drive and that will handle the dual boot.
> > Dos will be happy using the scsi drive and it willl not even know that the ide
> > drive is there. Linux will, of course, have access to the dos partition if
> > you choose to mount it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ed
> >
> > --
> > Ed Fletcher
> > ug853@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
> >
>
