[olug] LILO trouble

Nick Walter waltern at iivip.com
Sat Apr 20 16:04:06 UTC 2002


Now why would you use Ghost on a Linux machine?

I've used Ghost on Windows machines as a backup/replication tool, but I've
never bothered with it when dd/cpio/tar/gzip are right at my fingertips with
a linux system.

Oh, and I make my boot partitions 30-40 MB usually,  That gives room for
several kernels to be lying around if you feel you might be experimenting
with compiling different kernel versions.

Nick Walter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Rotschafer" <writetogenius at hotmail.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] LILO trouble


> Also note that GRUB and Norton Ghost do not like each other....AT
ALL....in
> case you ghost your drive....
>
> Nate
>
>
> >From: "Gary" <mescie at cox.net>
> >Reply-To: olug at olug.org
> >To: <olug at olug.org>
> >Subject: Re: [olug] LILO trouble
> >Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 01:00:06 -0700
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >I'm using mandrake 8.1.I've thought about using a /boot partition but I
saw
> >no reason too until now :) How big would you recommend I make it?
> >     I've seen the LILO vs Grub debate on this list.Grub sounds nice but
> >I'd
> >like to learn to use LILO first.I guess I'm bullheaded when it comes to
> >wanting to be able to use some things :)
> >
> >
> >         Thanks,Gary
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Nick Walter <waltern at iivip.com>
> >To: <olug at olug.org>
> >Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:15 PM
> >Subject: Re: [olug] LILO trouble
> >
> >
> > > Hmmm, you didn't mention which distribution of Linux you are using, so
I
> > > can't give installer-specific advice.  What I usually do to avoid
> >problems
> > > like this with Red Hat Linux is a /boot partition.  I make sure that's
> >the
> > > first partiton created and right at the front of the drive.  Make sure
> >Lilo
> > > and the kernel are in that partition and they should be within your
> >cylinder
> > > limit.  Then you can have the rest of your partitions spread across
the
> >rest
> > > of the drive.
> > >
> > > If you are willing to switch distros or download additional
components,
> >I'd
> > > recommend using GRUB instead of LILO.  GRUB is smarter than LILO and
not
> >as
> > > constrained.
> > >
> > > Nick Walter
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Gary" <mescie at cox.net>
> > > To: "olug" <olug at olug.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 1:59 AM
> > > Subject: [olug] LILO trouble
> > >
> > >
> > > I have 2 HDD's.A 5 Gig windows (master) and a 20 Gig linux (secondary)
> >with
> > > a 150 MB / partition a 250 Mb /home and a 250 Mb /var partition a 8.5
> >Gig
> > > /usr partition and 127 Mb swap partition.My problem is that LILO won't
> > > appear at all because it's not within the 1023 cylinder limit,my
> >cylinder
> >is
> > > set at 2034.I've used this setup before and LILO liked it just
fine.I've
> > > reinstalled linux 3 times in 7 days trying to get LILO to work,with no
> >luck
> > > of course.I've tried to set my cylinder to 1023 and lower in my BIOS
but
> > > when I do the total HDD size  decreases dramatically to like 5 Gig
(from
> >20
> > > Gig).Is there another was to change my cylinder situation?
> > >
> > >
> > >                 Thank you,Gary
> > >
> > >
> > >
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