LILO Troubles

[computer dork]

Running Red Hat 7.1

During Post Install I got a error message that said something like:

fatal: sector 180000 (some number like that) too large. Try "hba32" Make boot disk when prompted.

I'm dual booting with Windows 9x and I've done this a million times and made it work. LBA is supported by my motherboard.

What do I do so that I don't have to use my boot disk everytime I reboot?

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

[m3rlin]

try just to write lilo, with this he will record the lilo boot in the HD, if it doesn't work boot your machine and press the button to go to Ms-Dos (ctrl i think, in my country is F8) and digit fdisk /mbr this will erase your windows boot, and you will boot again with the linux disk and edit lilo.conf were you specify the location of the windows, something like this:
other = /dev/windows particion(hda4 or...)
label = dos
loader = /boot/chain.b
table = /dev/hda (where your device is)
and you execute the command "lilo" and your system should say "added lilo, or added <image>, something like this, i know this sounds i little bit confusing but it worked with me, it's a bit risky but it should work fine :)

[DMR]

This excerpt (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-5.html) from the Large-Disk HOWTO explains a bit of this. When your system prompts you to "try lba32", it is probably suggesting that you remove the "linear" entry from /etc/lilo.conf (if it exists) and replace it with the entry "lba32". The firsat section of lilo.conf would then look something like this:boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=600
message=/boot/messageBe sure to run /sbin/lilo afterwards to write the changes.