[lug] LILO not loading?

PC Drew drewpc at colorado.edu
Sun May 14 13:46:33 MDT 2000


Thus spake Calvin Dodge on Sunday, May 14, 2000, 10:23:43 AM:

CD> Are you sure your kernel is entirely within the 1024 cylinder limit?  That's
CD> why it's usually best to make a boot partition (15 megs is plenty) the first
CD> partition (or second, after the swap partition) on your hard drive.

Nope, I'm not sure.  Thanks for pointing that out, I'll take a look at
the partitioning

CD> Did you make a boot floppy?  You should be able to boot from that.

Of course not!  That would've been the smart and safe thing to do!






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