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Re: [Plug] A question about installing Linux
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I think this is the 1024 cylinder probelm.
there's something in the HOWTO/mini/LILO about booting under these
conditions...
User_Guide.ps under /usr/doc/lilo-* talks about 'LI' on page 44:
"The first stage boot laoder was able to load the second stage boot loader,
but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry
mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b withougt running the map installer"
I think this still points to the 1024 problem...see the mini HOWTO
on how to get around it...
k
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Andy Bradley wrote:
> I have been pretty much just lurking for a few months and decided it was time to get a Linux box running.
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> I have a problem loading Red Hat. This is my first real attempt at Linux or any Unix OS.
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> I have a P133 with 48 meg ram, a 4.3 gig western digital HD partitioned into two ~2 gig partitions using Western Digital's EZ drive. My bios does not support large drives. I have Windows 95 on the first partition and have installed RH on the second partition. I wish to dual boot the box. The install seems to go smoothly. I set up the Linux native and swap partitions, choose the packages to install. Everything is fine until it is time to reboot. I get the Ram Check, EZ Bios runs and then I just get "LI" and the box freezes up. Now I can not get at the Win95. Is Linux compatible with EZ Bios? Is there something else I am missing?
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> TIA
>
> Andrew Bradley
>
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