[PLUG] installation help!

[Jason]

> The problem is that the kernel resides on a place on the disk that is
> greater than the 1024th cylinder.  Supposedly the brand new version of
> lilo fixes this, but I have not tried.  

The version of lilo that comes with Mandrake 7.1 (0.21.4.3) does support
booting from partitions beyond the 2/4/8GB limit.  I've got a 15GB win2k
partition at the front of the disk (need M$ for work, unfortunately),
followed by a 5GB linux mandrake partition.

Now that I think about it, though, I'm not sure abou that.  I'm not using
LILO in the MBR to boot linux; I'm using w2k's bootloader.  LILO is loaded
on the linux partition itself -- Win2K's bootloader has no problem booting
linux on that partition.

> Unless you want to repartition
> your entire system (you could get a copy of partition magic 4 or higher
> and move your partitions) you should use Mandrake 7.1.  It ceomes with
> 'grub' which doesn't have some of the limitations that lilo does.
> Mandrake will ask you which boot loader you want to use if you use the
> expert mode.  It should configure grub for you.  If not, I've heard it's
> "interesting" to configure.

I thought about messing around with that, then I thought "why bother?" 
LILO is doing the job already.  However, it would be nice to not have
to recreate the bootsect.lnx everytime you make a minor change, as you
have to with LILO.

I would like to figure out how Mandrake created their boot screens on
the install CD when you boot from it.  Seeing tux while watching the
service's load is pretty neat!  ;)


Take care!
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