[CLUE-Tech] LILO Boot Problem

[Randy Arabie]

On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 at  6:59:43 -0700, Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:

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> I think my options are:
> 
>   --Repartition the disk, creating smaller partitions that the bios can
>   handle. Maybe a /, /boot, and /var (in addition to my swap).
> 
>   --Upgrade the bios.  I'm not even sure one is available.  This is the
>   least appealing option for me.
> 
>   --Continue to use boot floppies.  This isn't such a bad option.
>   Except I was planning on using debian stock kernel-images.  The
>   woody installation gives you a 2.2.x kernel, and I want to go to a
>   2.4.18 kernel.  All the stock ones use initrd and I'm not sure how to
>   make boot floppies for that config.
> 
>   --Create a boot CD.  My bios alleges it can boot from a cdrom, but
>   I've not been able to get it to do so.  I had to create some
>   installation boot floppies.  This really isn't much different from the
>   boot floppy option, but it does have the luxury of 650MB, rather than
>   1.44MB.

One possible option I forgot to mention is GRUB.  Could GRUB help me
solve this problem?
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy
http://www.arabie.org/
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