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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My 9.2 installation was working fine on my 30GB dual-boot HD. I bought a 160GB, put my W98/W2K on, installed Mandrake Linux 9.2 again from CD so the partitions look like this:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Win98 (5GB), W2K (140GB), Linux / (7.5GB), Linux /home (7.4GB), Linux swap (258MB).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When I rebooted, lilo failed with L 99 99 99... I couldn't get into Linux.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Rebooted with a floppy into DOS - fdisk /mbr.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reinstalled Linux, only this time with the mkbootdisk option, but the mkbootdisk failed for no specific reason, even though the rest of the installation worked. Rebooted. L 99 99 99...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reinstalled Linux only THIS time specifying /boot as /dev/hda6 (Linux /) not /dev/hda (HD primary partition). Rebooted. Still L 99 99 99...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am completely baffled.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any clues? Does Linux not read past the BIOS's 135GB limitation, even though Windows 200 does?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Marcus</FONT>
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