Bug 21763

Summary:	LILO can't not be installed with Windows ME
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	shiyi_yue <shiyi_yue>
Component:	lilo	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.0
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Description shiyi_yue 2000-12-05 20:37:58 UTC

Dual operating system: Windows ME (1st P partition 12GB), RedHat 7.0 (2nd 
P partition 6GB). 
Automatic partitioning. 
Fatal error during the end of the installation (Can not read it).
resulting no lilo installed.
Can only reboot through the disquette.

under root
% more /etc/lilo.config
no problem observed. I can also vi the file and change the default booting 
system. However, with or without the modification,

% /sbin/lilo -v 
gives fatal error again. can not merge to boot.b

Please let me know if you need to know the exact error messages.

Comment 1 Perry Harrington 2000-12-10 06:29:17 UTC

The likely cause of your problems is that you did not allocate a /boot partition
below the 1024 cylinder limit.  Lilo cannot read anything above cylinder 1024. 
You can fix this by making the first partition /boot of 30MB.  As long as the
/boot ends somewhere below cylinder 1024, then lilo will work fine.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-04 06:07:51 UTC

Yep, sounds like the classic 1024 cylinder problem.  Please make sure to have a
/boot below 1024 cylinders and it should solve your problems.