[UCLA-LUG] LILO bypass

[Justin Boseant]

> anything else. Now, when LILO goes to boot, it stops at LI and won't let me 

If I remember correctly, this is because LILO can't find your kernel (i.e.
not in the 1st 1024 cylinders etc...).  If you'd like not to reinstall
linux you can make a 10M partition at front of the disk but call it hda2
instead of hda1 (not sure how to do this with partition magic, or
insidentally with the new RH6.1 install, they don't seem to have an fdisk
option).  Call that partition /boot and let your windows partition fall
into hda1.  Then you should be okay.  Of course, since you've already
installed, it looks like you may just want to use a boot disk:

If you didn't make one during your installation (shame on you!) AND you
have the kernel source code AND you would like to also learn how to
recompile your kernel then:
1st -> read the kernel-HOWTO (/usr/docs/HOWTO/) (or go it alone with the
   help given on the fly
2nd -> set your configuration ( i like menuconfig )
3rd -> make dep; make zImage; make modules; make modules_install;
4th -> make zdisk

Not sure if there are any alternatives to boot disks with that problem.  I
must have wrestled with LILO for about 30hours last year trying to get it
to stop LI-ing.

Anyway, as a note for future install fests, it may be wise to assume that
the hdd are > 1024 cyl and plan on setting up the linux partions that way.

-justin