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Can you post the lilo.conf file?  There might be a slight typo - or it
sounds like the wrong boot sector is being specified.  Also - while I'm
on a roll - you may need to a chroot when you mount from the cd so that
everything gets placed in the right places, I don't remember with lilo.=20
I know that makes reinstalling GRUB on the boot sector much easier.

		--Ted

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:35, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello all:
> I repartitioned my wife's system in an effort to make it dual-boot with=20
> Linux.  I then installed Lindows on it (please, no flames, I wanted somet=
hing=20
> as Windows-like as possible.)  The install completed but it wouldn't boot=
;=20
> Lindows has installed LILO to the MBR, overwriting my EZ-BIOS stuff, whic=
h is=20
> required because this is an older mobo with two large disks attached.  I=20
> restored the MBR and Win 98 boots again, but my attempts to reinstall LIL=
O in=20
> a better place have failed.
>=20
> My first attempt was to put Linux in the last few GB of the second drive.=
  I=20
> realized that maybe LILO didn't want to be put there, so I created a 50MB=
=20
> partition at the stat of the first drive and copied the boot files there.=
  =20
> (For some reason, Partition Magic has assigned the ext2 boot partition to=
=20
> hda2, the Windows partition hd3, and the swap at the end hda1.  I don't t=
hink=20
> that should matter, but it seems odd.)
>=20
> Anyway, I updated the lilo.conf file to change boot from /dev/hda to=20
> /dev/hda2, and left the root mount-point at /dev/hdb2.  Since I have to b=
oot=20
> Linux from CD, I change to the directory where the hard drive gets mounte=
d:=20
> /disks/lindowsos/etc.  I then run lilo -C lilo.conf (so it uses the local=
=20
> version.)   I get the following error:
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> Warning:  Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sec=
tor=20
> geometries for BIOS drive 0x80.
> Warning:  Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sec=
tor=20
> geometries for BIOS drive 0x81.
> Fatal:  Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xf000.
>=20
> I don't know whether or not the fatal error is a consequence of the first=
=20
> two, or just a coincidence.  I've Googled for "LILO" and "device 0xf000" =
and=20
> can find nothing that explains this.   BTW, Lindows originally installed=20
> something as a SCSI drive - I think this was my USB compact-flash reader.=
  I=20
> removed this from the LILO config just in case it was hosing me up, but i=
t=20
> didn't help.  I also checked that the entry "lba32" occurs in the lilo.co=
nf=20
> file, since that's the way these disks are formatted.
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> Can anyone give me a hint of what to try next?  Thanks in advance for any=
=20
> help you can give me.
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> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
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> =20
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