Linux' fdisk / rescue disks / LILO

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp>]

Hi,

I've been playing around with multi-OS installation (Debian/Window$98)
for a bit and was wondering if it is possible to use Linux' `fdisk'
without having Linux installed (yet) since it is more powerful than
the `cfdisk' program the installer uses.  More specifically, I would
like to specify exactly what cylinders partitions are to start and to
end on.

I would guess this should be possible with the rescue diskettes, but I
can seem to get these to boot.  They just keep rebooting themselves no
matter what I throw at the boot prompt.  I have tried the tecra ones
as well to no avail.

A similar phenomenon appears after installation when I try to boot
using LILO.  It gets stuck in an infinite loop of booting Linux when
booting Linux when booting Linux ...  This happens at the reboot stage
in the installer.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts you might have,
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Olaf Meeuwissen               Ph.D. student, Shinshu University, Japan
olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp    Information Management Systems Laboratory