stress!

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hi all

Need help with my partitions. I've succesfully partitioned my drives to linux and fat32. But right now, because of the hierarchy of my partitions, the linux partition appears wayyyyy down the list. Therefore I can't use lilo, but I would like to use lilo as for some reason my computer doesn't recognise my floppy drive.

Is there a way to move the linux partition to a position that's higher up? 'Cos it won't let me boot linux and i'm goin on the brink of insanity here trying to work this out. Keeps saying it won't do it because it is installed greater than 1024 cylinders of my hdd...... :confused:

Would greatly appreciate advice on this.

[PimpHolic]

what is your linux partition? like for example /dev/hda2 etc.

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Originally posted by PimpHolic:
<STRONG>what is your linux partition? like for example /dev/hda2 etc.</STRONG>

Ahh...it's about hda7, hda8 and hda9
7 is root
8 is home
9 is swap

is it possible to make 7, 1 or 2?

[evulish]

My / is hda6...I didn't like LILO had problems with the 1024 cylinder thing anymore...

[Icculus]

upgrade your bios :D

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how do u upgrade the bios?

red hat still has that problem with 1024 cylinders which is really annoying.

Need help really quickly. Thinking about just reformatting my hold hdd and starting from the start