Re: LI on bootup (Am I missing something?)

[aderhaag wolfenet com (Alan E. Derhaag)]

"Smith, Nathan A., Capt." <smithna Comanche plk af mil> writes:

> Hi, 
> 
> I posted this question on Friday, it's now late Sunday and I haven't heard a
> peep.  I was wondeirng if I am posting this incorrectly or to the wrong list
> or something.  I have posted other questions, with similar results.  I
> figure I must be doing something wrong -- Could someone clue me in?  Thanks
> 

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> > > BTW:  the current partition setup I have is based off of several
> > messages
> > > I read (via a web search), that said that LILO needed to be on a
> > partition
> > > within the first 1023 cyclinders of the harddrive.  I have tried
> > > repartitioning the harddrive in several different ways.
> > > 
> > > If there is anything else I am not including please let me know as I
> > > really would like to get my friend his computer.  Thanks in advance
> > > 

I have a slightly different situation but I've found that creating a
boot directory soon after partitioning and making the filesystem
usually helps.  The kernel (vmlinuz not LILO) needs to be within the
first 1023 cylinders of early bios computers.  In fact, if you going
to recompile the kernel for missing drivers and configuration changes
it would be good to uncomment the Makefile entry of INSTALL_PATH=/boot
in the /usr/src/linux directory so the kernel, System.Map and boot
executables and be found by LILO there.