On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Joel Dick wrote:

> 40 Gig IDE hd allocated as follows
> 
> 4 Gig primary for win98 Primary /dev/hda1
> 382 MB Linux swap partition Primary /dev/hda2
> 5 Gig Linux partition for Debian Primary /dev/hda3
> Extended Partitions /dev/hda4
> 5 gig Linux partition for slackware /dev/hda5
> 
> I know I have to edit the lilo.conf, but kind of unsure how to go about
> setting that up correctly, unfortunately I'm not at home right now to get
> a copy of it to post with this message, I was just wondering how other
> people have gone about getting this set up.

lilo is notoriously problematic when it is not used in conjunction with a /boot partition on larger hard drives. this was supposedly fixed but i am too stupid to get it to work right. 

that is why i now use grub which never had that problem and is a little easier to configure IMHO. 

Munir Nassar
RedConcepts.NET
http://redconcepts.net/


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