Re:Problems with Red Hat Installation

[Jacob L Anawalt <anawaltaj cachevalley com>]

Hamid,

I believe that what you are seeing is a limitation in the LILO program, 
and is related to the abilities of BIOS in PC's. There is a 1024 boundry 
  for your boot sector to load linux. Once linux is loaded, it is no 
longer limited by the bios, but we have to get there first.

When I set up dual boot systems, I prefer to make a 20-50M linux /boot 
partition as the first partition, after that, I doesn't seem to matter 
what order I put things in. I then tell LILO to install to the master 
boot record MBR and let it manage which OS I boot into. I now keep linux 
on a second hd, due to an unfortunate accident w/ windows allowing an 
installer to mess up my partition tables, and prefer that set up.

Since you already have the system set up to be for windows, and have 
dedicated a few partitions to that task, perhapse you could look into 
linux loaders you start from dos (linload.exe?).

Is your boot disk one that points to the /boot directory in your linux 
install, or does it have a compressed kernel? A compressed kernel on a 
floppy does take a long time to decompress before loading.

The best pointers I have are to read up on LILO, booting linux, and post 
 your questions here and anywhere else you find that looks promising. 
www.linuxdoc.org 's how-to collection is valuable reading.

Jacob Anawalt