> Is it true what I've heard, though, that if you are for instance running
> EZ-BIOS (Maxtor's bios extension, to get around the 512M limit for
> larger
> disks), it loads itself into the MBR and then when LILO comes around to
> putting itself in the MBR, it gags because EZ-BIOS is there?
>
> I've been told that no matter how hard I work to avoid the 1023cylander
> problem
> as long as EZ-BIOS is in MBR, I will not get LILO to work. Is this true?
I was able to run linux and 95 together on a WD drive with the WD Drive
Manager in the MBR, but only using the OS/2 bootmanager (available with
partition magic 3.0). At the time I had to use a 1.3.xx kernal (at the
time) to cope with the translated drive parameters (I think I had to
tell fdisk the right parameters?) and lilo was installed on the linux
partition, but it worked fine. Boot Manager can be intalled on a small
partition anywhere on the drive, and it doesn't affect the MBR.
I finally ran into trouble when I added a new drive and I could never
get the two drives to work quite right together while drive manager was
present on the first drive, so I backed it all up to the new drive and
fdisk /mbr 'ed the first drive.
I still use boot manager rather than lilo to boot between 95, OS/2 and
linux... Isn't there another app like boot manager available for linux.
Seem to remember seeing one somewhere on the ANOUNCE list.
tim
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