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Re: lilo installation problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sergey Panov)
Mon Oct 21 21:04:45 1996
From: Sergey Panov <sipan@hires.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961021203149.30684G-100000@redhat.com> from "Erik Troan" at Oct 21, 96 08:32:16 pm
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> > I am having big problems installing redhat linux 4.0 .
> >
> > I boot from the floppy, go through the entire installation process
> > without a hitch, and then it will not properly install lilo. It then
> > gets confused in a loop, and things go down hill from there.
>
> Look at what tty5 (VC 5 [press Alt-F5 when the install fails]) and tell
> us what the last few messages are.
>
> Erik
>
I can bet it is "higher then 1024 cylinder" problem again. I had it on two
different computers already. You probably have big DOS/Win partition and
Linux one is over it. Even if your partition starts below 1024 cylinder you
might get this error message if your "vmlinuz" is actually higher.
Two solutions:
* create small partition below 1024 cylinder and mount it as /boot
(you should keep vmlinuz and vmlinuz.bak here)
* Change hard disk from NORMAL to LBA in CMOS.( you would have to
repartition your drive then). I am not shure if I am right though, but
it helpd me in one of the cases.
Sergey
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