Re: LILO AND SEAGATE DISCWIZARD - BOOTING FROM FLOPPY OR FROM DOS

[Jeff DeMaagd <jdemaa17 calvin edu>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Manuel Quintero wrote:

> I have a Pentium 100 and I am trying to install Redhat 5.0. I bought a
> new Seagate 4 Gbytes hard disk, but my setup doesn't support this in
> windows 98. I have got the Seagate "Discwizard" program in order to
> install the hard drive. This program copies a program in the boot
> sectors that allow the compatibility. The problem I have is that when
> installing LINUX, LILO is placed over the Seagate program, then when
> Window 98 is booted, the 4 Gbytes hard disk is not recognized. If I
> install the Seagate program, this overlaps LILO and LINUX can not be
> booted.
> 
> I think that the solution is to boot LINUX from a floppy or from DOS,
> but I don't know how to do that. Can anybody help me?

A Pentium?  What's that?  LILO?  Windows 98?  This is the wrong list.  You
should get some personal responses, but RedHat is maintaining other
mailing lists more relavant to your question, as this is for Alpha AXP, an
architecture incompatible with what you talked about.

Jeff