Hello...
I finally went ahead and installed windows onto an empty partition
(hda3, it happens to be). Of course, Windows overwrote the MBR, but
I was ready for that. I had my linux boot disk in hand, popped it in,
and i was back into linux. According to everything I have read, in
order to reinstall LILO onto the MBR, one simply had to run lilo as
root. I did so (after editing the lilo.conf file in order to add the
windows partition). However, the machine still booted directly into
Windows. While I could survive with this fact (I can always just keep
bootting linux from the floppy) I have no desire to. It takes longer
than I like to boot linux from the floppy, and besides, I would like to
know what I have done wrong (and not done that was necessary).
How can I correct this situation?
Here is what is printed out when i run lilo now as root:
Added linux.bak
Added linux *
Warning: device 0x0303 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1024 > 1023)
My lilo.conf file:
boot=/dev/hda
timeout=500
vga=normal
prompt
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux.bak
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.1
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
other=/dev/hda3
table=/dev/hda
label=dos
My partition table:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1015 8152956 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1016 1024 72292+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 * 1025 2482 11711385 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1016 1024 72261 82 Linux swap
I'm running RedHat7 on a pentium III (with MMX technology! :) )
With the best...