>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:11:26 -0700 >X-PH: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Steve Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Booting Linux > >Did you get an answer to your question yet? > >1) You might want to get the -fast version of the boot or rescue disk -- > the regular version is only for some particular floppy drives, and > supposedly the -fast version will boot faster (I haven't done this yet, > but I plan to) > >2) How far away is the start of your linux partition from the start of your > disk? Over 512M? I got 4FA (instead of 1FA) when I tried to boot using > LILO -- and then I remembered that the BIOS (which LILO needs to start >things > rolling), wasn't set up to read past some particular disk size (I think >it's 1024M). > (I have 800M for DOS/now Windows 95 at the front of the disk, and the >Linux). > Since it's on my son's machine, I haven't really pushed the issue too >hard yet, but > my plans of attack are (in no particular order) > > a) look at using fips (I think that's its name) to reparition the Win95 >partition > smaller > b) put loadlin onto the Win95 partition -- you can boot directly into >Linux using > that from Win95 or DOS (make sure the .bat file shortcut is marked as >running in > MSDOS mode). > c) see if there are other ways to cause loading to occur, maybe by >investigating newer > LILO options or maybe using some other install program (syslinux?) > >One other thing: the disk in question is SCSI, so heads/cyls/sectors are a >fluid affair. I >had originally installed when the disk geometry (according to the kernel) >was 16 heads, 32 >sectors. Later kernels changed this value to 63 heads, 128 sectors/track >(I think) -- this >causes lots of problems with LILO and Linux's fdisk because it thinks the >partition doesn't >start on a cylinder boundary. > >Steve > Worked it out! Thanks for the replies. I simply did not know that I needed to run LILO prior to booting from HD. Play and learn :)
Thanks again -lennox
