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Posted: Feb. 13 2005,17:45 QUOTE
AH! I see you got a perfect install of L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99...

This happens, because Lilo sucks sometimes.

You can either reinstall DSL, or, use my grub install method in the Docs.

-J.P.

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Posted: Feb. 14 2005,14:11 QUOTE
Thank You, i had reinstalled it so many times that i wanted to check the forum.

I used a 486 and BIOS had a hd limitation of 512MB, but i had a 900MB ext2 and a 64MB swap partition.
And that was why GRUB reported: "ERROR 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS" and couldn't load linux24.

Then i booted DSL from a floppy again, repartitioned the hd and reinstalled DSL.
I then booted from GRUB, set some settings and after that installed grub from root with an accidental entry of something like this "mydsl-load grub.dsl". When finished, i changed some lines from /boot/grub/menu.lst:
    1.I deleted all '#' signs that were before linux booting code
    2.I changed all the settings to match the hd, where DSL was now installed

After a reboot GRUB showed a menu and i was able to choose from "linux", "windows", "other". So nothing had gone wrong..

Thank You Saidin.. :)
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Posted: Feb. 15 2005,00:57 QUOTE
The fix for this at least for me was to remove any SATA drives from my pc temporarily. They seem to break this lilo script. Once i removed them it install to hd fine. I had 2 raid 0 pairs of drives hooked up. It confused me becsue I was installing to a ide drive on /dev/hda. But i get no more 999999 at lilo coming up. I reattached after rebooting after mkliloboot my raid drives and voila IT WORKS.

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