lilo

[vendace]

I have installed Suse 7.2 on my computer,previously sucsessfully on my old computer running win 98.
Have paritioned present computer with Partition Magic and have win Xp and 98 booting from boot magic.
Have installed Suse but will not load lilo to floppy.
Have tried using yast 1 but says that memory test is too large.
This means that I have to boot from installation disks but as it wont recognise my radeon 900 graphics card I have to reconfigure with sax2 each time.
Have tried to boot with boot magic but loading of linux freezes.
Would prefer to boot from floppy,any ideas please?
Im still a beginner.

[Modorf]

mmm, what is your current lilo.conf
my suggestion is to use boot magic to load your linux partition and have lilo install the bootloader to the linux partition.

also depending on your the size of your hard drive and where the linux partition is stored on the drive, you will need to enable the lba32 option in lilo

hope this gives you some ideas.

Nathan.

[vendace]

thanks,sorry not sure how to enable lba 32

[Modorf]

lba32 Generate 32-bit Logical Block Addresses instead of
sector/head/cylinder addresses. If the BIOS sup-
ports packet addressing, then packet calls will be
used to access the disk. This allows booting from
any partition on disks with more than 1024 cylin-
ders. If the BIOS does not support packet address-
ing, then 'lba32' addresses are translated to sec-
tor/head/cylinder ('geometric'), just as for 'lin-
ear'. All floppy disk references are retained in
C:H:S form. Use of 'lba32' is recommended on all
post-1998 systems. Beginning with LILO version 22,
'lba32' is the default disk addressing scheme.


This is from the lilo.conf man page.
one of the options in your lilo.conf can be lba32

btw, try reading the man page, it is helpful ::
man lilo.conf

Nathan.

[vendace]

Thanks,I did manage in the end.Loaded lilo to root and can now booot from boot magic.When I removed the option to boot Windows XP (NT) it seemed to work.