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October 2, 2000 at 12:39 PM
gmg

LILO failing to load

by gmg . Updated 25 years, 8 months ago

Hi,
I tried to install Linux on my PC with following partitions :

drive size status comment
—————————————
C: 100MB Active boot files only/FAT16
E: 8000MB for Windows 98/FAT32
~6500MB unused/for linux
(drive letter ‘D’ is assigned to my secondary hard disk by Windows — which I use it for data)

During installation, I configured this disk for linux – which resulted like this :

drive size Flag Comment
——————————————-
C 100MB Boot
E 8000MB
F 6000MB Boot Linux file system for /
G ~400MB /tmp (Linux)

But when LILO tried to write MBR, it failed –
saying somthing like LBA not used in the primary partition – does itneed logical volumes(in primary dos partition) to write MBR? What is the best way now to resolve this situation?

By the way, I used Turbo Linux 4.0

regards

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