Thanks to those who answered concerning my LILO problem now it's ok
>
> I'm guessing that /dev/hda3 is the / partition (or at least contains
>/boot ) and starts at a cylinder greater than 1024. In that case, LILO
>won't be able to boot an image on this partition, so loadlin is probably
>your best bet. Get yourself to a real DOS command prompt (not a windows
>DOS box) and then "cd d:\dosutils" and
>"loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3" where d: is the location of your
>RH CD.
>
> Greg Whittier
I've first tried this and it worked ok but i had a stupid problem with
passwords then.
Then i read this message.
>> Help, how do I find out what cylinders my root partion is on. I have a
>> 1.6 GB hard drive. I have the first 200 MB partioned as root but lilo
>> stil won't work.
>
>enable LBA on your motherboard to do the proper translation. You can use
>fdisk to find out some of this information:
>
># fdisk /dev/hda
>Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 1 1023 2062336+ 83 Linux native
>
>This is my 2G drive, but not using this one for my root. The `End' column
>will tell you cylinder marks, depending on how your drive is configured in
>your BIOS.
>
>Dave
and there it was, i just changed my motherboard config to enable LBA and
now everything is fine.
Thanks again.
JY
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